A Life by Sylvia Plath
Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball,
This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear.
Here's yesterday, last year ---Palm-spear and lily distinct as flora in the vast
Windless threadwork of a tapestry.
Flick the glass with your fingernail:
It will ping like a Chinese chime in the slightest air stir
Though nobody in there looks up or bothers to answer.
The inhabitants are light as cork,
Every one of them permanently busy.
At their feet, the sea waves bow in single file.
Never trespassing in bad temper:
Stalling in midair,
Short-reined, pawing like paradeground horses.
Overhead, the clouds sit tasseled and fancy
As Victorian cushions. This family
Of valentine faces might please a collector:
They ring true, like good china.
Elsewhere the landscape is more frank.
The light falls without letup, blindingly
.A woman is dragging her shadow in a circle
About a bald hospital saucer.
It resembles the moon, or a sheet of blank paper
And appears to have suffered a sort of private blitzkrieg.
She lives quietly
With no attachments, like a foetus in a bottle,
The obsolete house, the sea, flattened to a picture
She has one too many dimensions to enter.
Grief and anger, exorcised,
Leave her alone now.
The future is a grey seagull
Tattling in its cat-voice of departure.
Age and terror, like nurses, attend her,
And a drowned man, complaining of the great cold,
Crawls up out of the sea.
i like the last two lines.
shit i feel like shit now. i think i screwed up my prelims. hello LT3.
got like no mood to go watch what movie la.
my mum says im studying too doggedly and things are gonna fall out of my brain sooner or later. "you should relax.. sitting there for 5 hrs straight is not the way. go swim.. gym.. clear your cupboard. folding your clothes is a form of relaxation too you know."AHH
On the first day of prelims i fell aslp on the car and dreamt that instead of our gp paper we had huge slabs of chee cheong fan on our table.
i might have scored better for cheecheongfan.
:((((( its alright moni!!!!!!!!
my mum just took out one of our ridiculously many fengshui books and now she's finding out the best position for me to sit and study. turns out i have been facing the opposite direction all this while. aiyo this feels kinda pathetic..haha.
UGH. anyway, that day while i was studying i suddenly thought about how 'once upon a time' is actually a very beautiful phrase. its like you're riding a magic carpet called time. (hahah bullshit.)but something like that ya. and it just kept on playing in my head onceuponatime.. wansaponatime... wansa ponner time..wanser ponner time. WUN SIR PON SIR TIMESER! by then it didnt feel so beautiful anymore hahaha.
okokok pretty little birds sat on my window and they told me i dont have to worry so it's time for a haircut!
chowchow.
we live in a meritocratic country. there's nothing to be ashamed of.
my bestest pal to be.
aiyo. like that how to be prom king you tell me.
one handsome pic for you, nicholas. no more
