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Solidarity to Solitude
When I read Sylvia Plath’s poetry, I often think of the manner in which she died. Putting her head in an open oven and killing herself, while her little children slept in the adjacent bedroom. Did she see herself alone in her thoughts? Was her loneliness self inflicted?
It must not have been, otherwise, how else would you describe the amazing feelings my self induced solitude gives me? Where I am fasting on my busyness while serving up myself loneliness in abundance.
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