The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculo…

Sylvia Plath
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The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity, white and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide. No day is safe from news of you, walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2010). Ariel, p.45, Faber & Faber
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