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133 out of 300
year 1961, slowly approaching the Ariel poems 🕺

113 out of 300
this is a marathon not a sprint!

"To you
Perseus, the palm, and may you poise
And repoise until time stop, the celestial balance
Which weighs our madness with our sanity."

technically, this is about The Triumph of Wit (Perseus) Over Suffering (Medusa). but to me it's about percy jackson overcoming all the adversities and growing up with grace despite all that he suffered 😭 my precious child really got his happy ending

some of her poems are so vivid, like a beautiful little fables

reading this at 5am drunk on a bus to see if i reach a higher level of consciousness.

never mind, she redeemed herself with fiesta melons (melon-eating fiesta-goers is a stereotype that i will proudly admit to) and being anti-taurina in the goring

ah yes, i am suddenly reminded that sylvia plath is american... what a nice poem about spain with mentions of LATIN music that is literally from another continent and random words in ITALIAN ??? she said: remix