quot lady lazarus quot
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If you need to, research the Biblical story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead.
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Lady Lazarus
Sylvia Plath, 1932 – 1963
I have done it again._x000D_ One year in every ten_x000D_ I manage it—_x000D_ _x000D_ A sort of walking miracle, my skin_x000D_ Bright as a Nazi lampshade,_x000D_ My right foot_x000D_ _x000D_ A paperweight,_x000D_ My face a featureless, fine_x000D_ Jew linen._x000D_ _x000D_ Peel off the napkin_x000D_ O my enemy._x000D_ Do I terrify?—_x000D_ _x000D_ The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?_x000D_ The sour breath_x000D_ Will vanish in a day._x000D_ _x000D_ Soon, soon the flesh_x000D_ The grave cave ate will be_x000D_ At home on me_x000D_ _x000D_ And I a smiling woman._x000D_ I am only thirty._x000D_ And like the cat I have nine times to die._x000D_ _x000D_ This is Number Three._x000D_ What a trash_x000D_ To annihilate each decade._x000D_ _x000D_ What a million filaments._x000D_ The peanut-crunching crowd_x000D_ Shoves in to see_x000D_ _x000D_ Them unwrap me hand and foot—_x000D_ The big strip tease._x000D_ Gentlemen, ladies_x000D_ _x000D_ These are my hands_x000D_ My knees._x000D_ I may be skin and bone,_x000D_ _x000D_ Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman._x000D_ The first time it happened I was ten._x000D_ It was an accident._x000D_ _x000D_ The second time I meant_x000D_ To last it out and not come back at all._x000D_ I rocked shut_x000D_ _x000D_ As a seashell._x000D_ They had to call and call_x000D_ And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls._x000D_ _x000D_ Dying_x000D_ Is an art, like everything else._x000D_ I do it exceptionally well._x000D_ _x000D_ I do it so it feels like hell._x000D_ I do it so it feels real._x000D_ I guess you could say I’ve a call._x000D_ _x000D_ It’s easy enough to do it in a cell._x000D_ It’s easy enough to do it and stay put._x000D_ It’s the theatrical_x000D_ _x000D_ Comeback in broad day_x000D_ To the same place, the same face, the same brute_x000D_ Amused shout:_x000D_ _x000D_ ‘A miracle!'_x000D_ That knocks me out._x000D_ There is a charge_x000D_ _x000D_ For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge_x000D_ For the hearing of my heart—_x000D_ It really goes._x000D_ _x000D_ And there is a charge, a very large charge_x000D_ For a word or a touch_x000D_ Or a bit of blood_x000D_ _x000D_ Or a piece of my hair or my clothes._x000D_ So, so, Herr Doktor._x000D_ So, Herr Enemy._x000D_ _x000D_ I am your opus,_x000D_ I am your valuable,_x000D_ The pure gold baby_x000D_ _x000D_ That melts to a shriek._x000D_ I turn and burn._x000D_ Do not think I underestimate your great concern._x000D_ _x000D_ Ash, ash—_x000D_ You poke and stir._x000D_ Flesh, bone, there is nothing there--_x000D_ _x000D_ A cake of soap, _x000D_ A wedding ring,_x000D_ A gold filling._x000D_ _x000D_ Herr God, Herr Lucifer_x000D_ Beware_x000D_ Beware._x000D_ _x000D_ Out of the ash_x000D_ I rise with my red hair_x000D_ And I eat men like air.
23-29 October 1962
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