Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or …

Sylvia Plath
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Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2011). The Colossus: and Other Poems, p.26, Vintage
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Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2011). The Colossus: and Other Poems, p.26, Vintage

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