THE LETTERS OF SYLVIA PLATH(1932-1963)

There you are, even as a part

of your own canonization,

a blonde beach bunny,

a sister to Marilyn Monroe.

That's how they want to

see you, that's how they

want to sell you to readers

and generations to come:

Beautiful, sexy, all surface

& no depth - just sand, sun,

smile and bare skin. You

are being tamed.

(The endless soot and rain

in England, forgotten. No

smog for our All-American

Good-Time Girl.)

You are being made to

serve the patriarchy -

by agents male and female.

They have enslaved you in death.

"Boys, she can't bite you

- anymore!" (Laugh)

"Girls, don't you want to

be as smart and Pretty as she?"

11.11.2017