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| User: | lady_lazarus (90042)
Lady Lazarus
Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.
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| Name: | phoenix |
| Website: | tarot.com |
| Location: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Birthdate: | 1987-12-17 |
| Bio: | THIS JOURNAL IS NOW FRIENDS ONLY. PLEASE COMMENT TO BE ADDED.
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
I have done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it----
A sort of walking miracle, my skin
Bright as a Nazi lampshade,
My right foot
A paperweight,
My face a featureless, fine
Jew linen.
Peel off the napkin
0 my enemy.
Do I terrify?----
The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
The sour breath
Will vanish in a day.
Soon, soon the flesh
The grave cave ate will be
At home on me
And I a smiling woman.
I am only thirty.
And like the cat I have nine times to die.
This is Number Three.
What a trash
To annihilate each decade.
What a million filaments.
The peanut-crunching crowd
Shoves in to see
Them unwrap me hand and foot
The big strip tease.
Gentlemen, ladies
These are my hands
My knees.
I may be skin and bone,
Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman.
The first time it happened I was ten.
It was an accident.
The second time I meant
To last it out and not come back at all.
I rocked shut
As a seashell.
They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
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.
It's easy enough to do it in a cell.
It's easy enough to do it and stay put.
It's the theatrical
Comeback in broad day
To the same place, the same face, the same brute
Amused shout:
'A miracle!'
That knocks me out.
There is a charge
For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge
For the hearing of my heart----
It really goes.
And there is a charge, a very large charge
For a word or a touch
Or a bit of blood
Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.
So, so, Herr Doktor.
So, Herr Enemy.
I am your opus,
I am your valuable,
The pure gold baby
That melts to a shriek.
I turn and burn.
Do not think I underestimate your great concern.
Ash, ash ---
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there----
A cake of soap,
A wedding ring,
A gold filling.
Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware
Beware.
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
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| Memories:: | 32 entries |
| Interests: | 150: 'protect your pin' stickers, 1940s-1980s, 2012, 40 watt club, a perfect circle, absinthe, academia, adbusters, amiina, angel, anime, annex wreckroom, apple, astrology, austria, b-sides, battlestar galactica, bauhaus, being a geek, beirut, bicycles, big boots, big stompy boots, bill murray films, billy corgan, bjork, blue velvet, broken social scene, buffy the vampire slayer, cat power, comfy duvets, crispy roll, crystals, cylons, david bowie, doctor who, dreads, elliott smith, empire records, existentialism, fight club, french, ghost world, ghosts, glitter, gogo dancing, grosse pointe blank, gtalk, harry potter, hedwig, herbivore, high fidelity, his dark materials, holding hands, indie, industrial, insomnia, interpol, joanna newsom, joy division, karma, kensington market, king of fools, kink, kitsch, kittens, lightning storms, make-up, meditation, mew, modest mouse, ndp, neil gaiman, nirvana, orchids, owen pallett, owls, paganism, parasol star, pavement, phoenixes, photography, pink floyd, placebo, plumtree, politics, popsicles, queen st., queens of the stoneage, quentin tarantino films, radiohead, rasputina, renegade spirituality, ryerson, salzburg, samuel beckett, sandman, sartre, scarves + mittens, scopitones, scott pilgrim, secretary, sex bob-omb, sex pistols, shiny things, sigur ros, simone debeauvoir, siouxsie and the banshees, smashing pumpkins, snow, star wars, sugar cookies, sushi, sylvia plath, tank girl, tarot, tattoos, tea, the a-team, the angry inch, the arcade fire, the clash, the distillers, the libertines, the shanghai cowgirl, the smiths, the wedding present, theatre, thunder storms, toronto, train rides, trinkets, vampires, vegetarianism, velvet goldmine, vertigo comics, vienna, vintage clothing, vintage hair, vnv nation, vodka, waiting for godot, weezer, wes anderson films, whiskey & gin, wicca, withnail and i, wolf parade, writhe and shine, zwan |
| Friends: |  | 80: | acidic_berry, akael, alielle, andthejokeis, applejack_pho, arc_wraith, assetic, ataraxian, b_i_a_n_c_a28, blue_gaze, boeseveri, bradyh3, brokenmellcifer, carebear4321, causticlogik, celtic4, cen0byte, coatknee, coolfreshair, crism, dame_en_rouge, dannyell, destroyerzooey, diamond_dog00, dingdonghello, dj_writhe, dpph, dreamoo, echoicvirus, endallmonsters, explodingsuns, fakediy, fantasygoat, februarystars72, femmecasse, fiender, gatomon, god_is_dead_fn, gosurori_order, grandpaladin, hayama, howler_prowler, is_thisdesire, johannakatt, kuaimao, lady_gwynevere, lh, marev, minixx, monicaelizabeth, namingofparts, neris, obe, oldwallpaper, penderosa, quistyliz, ragsykov, re_silvera, redridcully, relorya, ribbon_in_hair, robynveda, scary_rhubarb, sevenblades, shechina, sinful_caesar, slaughteredewok, spirulinai, star_belly, superberg, terra_break, tharpy, theguyinthefd, theleadenwinter, timeshiftasset, unchartedwaters, unknown_user, verona, willy_skullz, wing_it |  | 26: | 40wattclub, brokensocialite, bsg_challenge, coyoteshivers, diy_vintage, eyeshadowsluts, fightthis, foto_decadent, galactica_icons, geekyink, has_a_good_home, laceandflora, queen_street, runwaym, ryersonu, tahmoh_daily, toronto_cddrop, toronto_roomies, torontorentals, torontoveggie, vintage_sex, vintagehair, vintagemakeup, wedeservebetter, withnailandi, youdeservebette |  | 2: | officialgaiman, verona_uk |
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| Mutual Friends: | 76: acidic_berry, akael, alielle, andthejokeis, applejack_pho, arc_wraith, assetic, ataraxian, b_i_a_n_c_a28, blue_gaze, boeseveri, bradyh3, brokenmellcifer, carebear4321, causticlogik, celtic4, cen0byte, coatknee, coolfreshair, crism, dame_en_rouge, dannyell, diamond_dog00, dingdonghello, dj_writhe, dpph, dreamoo, echoicvirus, endallmonsters, explodingsuns, fakediy, februarystars72, femmecasse, fiender, gatomon, god_is_dead_fn, grandpaladin, hayama, howler_prowler, is_thisdesire, kuaimao, lady_gwynevere, lh, marev, minixx, monicaelizabeth, namingofparts, neris, obe, oldwallpaper, penderosa, quistyliz, ragsykov, re_silvera, redridcully, relorya, ribbon_in_hair, robynveda, scary_rhubarb, sevenblades, shechina, sinful_caesar, slaughteredewok, spirulinai, star_belly, superberg, terra_break, tharpy, theguyinthefd, theleadenwinter, timeshiftasset, unchartedwaters, unknown_user, verona, willy_skullz, wing_it |
| Account type: | Basic Account |
