Words heard, by accident, over the phone
O mud, mud, how fluid! ---
Thick as foreign coffee, and with a sluggy pulse.
Speak, speak! Who is it?
It is the bowel-pulse, lover of digestibles.
It is he who has achieved these syllables.
What are these words, these words?
They are plopping like mud.
O god, how shall I ever clean the phone table?
They are pressing out of the many-holed earpiece, they are looking for a
listener.
Is he here?
Now the room is ahiss. The instrument
Withdraws its tentacle.
But the spawn percolate in my heart. They are fertile.
Muck funnel, muck funnel --
You are too big. They must take you back!
Sylvia Plath
This poem relates to me because I had a friend who was pretty much "emotionally scared for life" after this situation. His girlfriend came to his house and she asked to use his phone to call her mom. But he was speculating that she was with another guy and thought that she was lying about being on the phone with her mom. So he picked up another phone to spy on the call. He was right and he found out that she was with another guy. but I guess words like "I love you" and "Can't wait to go on our date and then you come to my place" would specify that. He later confronted her, They got into a fight and she later left him for the other guy, but when the other guy found out about the first guy, he broke up with her. So in the end everyone lost, which indirectly effected everyone.
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Richard, it isn't enough to just make a text to self connection to a poem... actually analyze the poem more substantially in your connection and use specific lines from the poem while you making the textual connections... put them in quotes. Also make sure you proofread and make sure it all make sense.
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