SELF-CANNIBALISM

What a thrill ——
My thumb instead of an onion.
The top quite gone
Except for a sort of a hinge

Of skin,
A flap like a hat,
Dead white.
Then that red plush.

Little pilgrim,
The Indian’s axed your scalp.
Your turkey wattle
Carpet rolls

Straight from the heart.
I step on it,
Clutching my bottle 
Of pink fizz. A celebration, this is.
Out of a gap
A million soldiers run,
Redcoats, every one.Whose side are they on?
O my
Homunculus, I am ill.
I have taken a pill to kill

The thin
Papery feeling.
Saboteur,
Kamikaze man —-

The stain on your
Gauze Ku Klux Klan
Babushka
Darkens and tarnishes and when
The balled
Pulp of your heart
Confronts its small
Mill of silence

How you jump——
Trepanned veteran,
Dirty girl,
Thumb stump.

-Sylvia Plath

24.10.62

Soaring across the Earth, time just passes me by.
Light as a feather.
I’ll never have to be human.
Not existent.

Hold my hand, love me like a child.
Don’t let go.

So I’ll live forever,
in your heart. 

In all honesty, I’m just glad I’m not you.