"But now I hear your voice in my head. You say: people are allowed to impose conditions on connection. Some of those conditions are implicit, obvious: I won’t talk to you if you’re mean to me. But people are also allowed to say: I won’t talk to you if you won’t kiss me. That’s normal and maybe even commendable. You say that I’m the weird one for not being particularly interested in structure. But weren’t you the one who made me this way?"
"But now I hear your voice in my head. You say: people are allowed to impose conditions on connection. Some of those conditions are implicit, obvious: I won’t talk to you if you’re mean to me. But people are also allowed to say: I won’t talk to you if you won’t kiss me. That’s normal and maybe even commendable. You say that I’m the weird one for not being particularly interested in structure. But weren’t you the one who made me this way?"
This deserves a book of its own. Fire.
the fact that that part of the Hughes poem was about the woman he cheated on Plath with is wild
One of my favorite Ava forms