"Believes in carbon, after death"
Meyers, Plath, Levis, Matejka, Menashe, Simone
Bert Meyers:
Sylvia Plath:
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Larry Levis:
Adrian Matejka:
Samuel Menashe:
Nina Simone, “Stars,” rec. 1976:
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This constellation of poems illuminates the myriad ways we receive and perceive any given thing. And the Plath line,"There is too much ease here; these stars treat me too well.", (again) broke my heart for her want.
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"I got it all wrong.
I wound up believing in words the way a scientist
Believes in carbon, after death."