Sunday, March 20, 2011

I am working. I feel empowered.

Bonjour mon cherie! Today, I am working/ studying. But as you can see, I am on the internet, so I'm really not studying. I really hate this chapiter of chemistry.

Additionally, I've skimmed throgh some of Sylvia Plath's poems. They're pretty depressing, but I found one that I actually enjoy because it mirrors the way I feel about family reunions.


Family Reunion
by Sylvia Plath



Outside in the street I hear

A car door slam; voices coming near;

Incoherent scraps of talk

And high heels clicking up the walk;

The doorbell rends the noonday heat

With copper claws;

A second's pause.

The dull drums of my pulses beat

Against a silence wearing thin.

The door now opens from within.

Oh, hear the clash of people meeting ---

The laughter and the screams of greeting :



Fat always, and out of breath,

A greasy smack on every cheek

From Aunt Elizabeth;

There, that's the pink, pleased squeak

Of Cousin Jane, out spinster with

The faded eyes

And hands like nervous butterflies;

While rough as splintered wood

Across them all

Rasps the jarring baritone of Uncle Paul;

The youngest nephew gives a fretful whine

And drools at the reception line.



Like a diver on a lofty spar of land

Atop the flight of stairs I stand.

A whirlpool leers at me,

I cast off my identity

And make the fatal plunge.
 
Have a lovely & productive Sunday!

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