“You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.”

—  Sylvia Plath, Ariel

&quot;Daddy&quot; http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/daddy.html <br class="br">Ariel (1965)

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