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Intense, merciless, wielding words like sword, it's dark up there, in there, howling screams of despair and whipping lashes of acidic rage.

Well, what do you think of that?
Naked as paper to start

But in twenty-five years she'll be silver,
In fifty, gold.
A living doll, everywhere you look.
It can sew, it can cook,
It can talk, talk, talk.

Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.

- The Applicant


I am myself. That is not enough.

My ribs show. What have I eaten?
Lies and smiles.
Surely the sky is not that color,
Surely the grass should be rippling.

- The Jailor


Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.

I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I've a call.

- Lady Lazarus


What is this, behind this veil, is it ugly, is it beautiful?
It is shimmering, has it breasts, has it edges?

I would have killed myself gladly that time any possible way.
Now there are these veils, shimmering like curtains

Can you not give it to me?
Do not be ashamed � I do not mind if it is small.

If you only knew how the veils were killing my days.
To you they are only transparencies, clear air.

But my god, the clouds are like cotton.
Armies of them. They are carbon monoxide.

Is it impossible for you to let something go and have it go whole?
Must you stamp each piece purple,

Must you kill what you can?

- A Birthday Present


Other rawest favorite poems including The Couriers, The Rabbit Catcher, Tulips, Ariel, The Courage of Shutting-Up, Medusa, Daddy.