Dylan and Sylvia:
Conversation overheard in Hell

Dylan Thomas:
If it weren't for the blueness of your lips
you'd look a treat, Syl.

Sylvia Plath:
You think so, do you?
You're all alike
you men.

DT:
Now wait a minute, sister
I didn't mean..

SP:
You didn't mean? Neither did he
when he knocked her up
and I with our two kids
in a flat
with no money

DT:
At least I'm not
tragically hip
killing myself
by sticking
my head in the oven.

SP:
Oh, yes you are.
You just
took the liquid route
instead of gas
Lose a few pounds,
and the yellow of your eyes
will look good
beside my blue lips.

DT:
That
was an accident!
I wasn't trying
to kill
myself!

SP:
Ye gods, man, 18 whiskeys
and you think
you weren't
trying to off
yourself.

Who do you
think
you're kidding?

You just didn't
have the guts
to decide
to do it
consciously

but rather
let it happen
over the years
©E. Howe Oct 27, 2003


According to "The Writer's Almanac", today is the birthday of Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath.