MAD GIRL'S LOVE SONG (By Sylvia Plath)

I have a poetry chapbook loaded with illustrations that comes with 2 dvds of me doing spoken word.
It is available at: http://www.filmbaby.com/films/4408
--or private message me. Email is: b8888a@aol.com


With apologies to Sylvia Plath. Only Plath can truly read Plath as it was meant to be heard;
One can hear Sylvia Plath Read her own work on these channels/videos.

Sylvia reading her own poetry:
DADDY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHjctqSBwM
FEVER 103 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfgtiDvvAR8
THE APPLICANT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQySAjflgnA
PURDAH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1bcr9Q3Fpg
LADY LAZARUS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QPTAimVTPo
NICK AND THE CANDLESTICK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBIltw39gug
ARIEL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh9EG3Sq9iY
THE STONES http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUpZQMeHumw
NOVEMBER GRAVEYARD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ujeHnrT8A
PARLIAMENT HILL FIELDS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snEkUrme-28


A great 2 part interview with Sylvia Plath:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6RRWf8woPM&feature=related

A great 6 part documentary on Sylvia Plath:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwDGyQtxlUI

A 9 minute telling of Sylvias life done as a school project by LovesMeNot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaNV5FOuaPE

A TRIBUTE TO SYLVIA PLATH AND TED HUGHES (TWO PARTS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gixYZrmayA&feature=related

THE WRITER/POET KATE BRAVERMAN READING PLATHS POEM LESBOS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBMIdE0HeG8

MAD GIRLS LOVE SONG

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hells fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satans men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied youd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

--Sylvia Plath

(NOTICE: A POETRY CHAPBOOK THAT COMES WITH 2 DVDS OF MY WORK IS COMING OUT SOON ON DIFFERENT ONLINE STORES; IF YOU WANT TO BUY ONE DIRECTLY FROM ME AND HAVE IT SIGNED AND GET EXTRA COOL STUFF SEND ME A MESSAGE ON YOUTUBE.)

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[nordicsky]

Thank you David. At the moment my poetry is going nowhere, I'm dryer than the Kalahari desert. Listening to this brilliant fluid reading helped and it also reinforced my admiration for Sylvia Plath's fine poetry.

Regards, Peter

[DavidRandallCurtis]

@nordicsky I hear ya Peter... I am dried up myself... although I have many poems written in my head I can't bring myself to type them. We should skype sometime. I am David.Randall.Curtis on skype :P

[PoetLina]

Brilliant! Your reading reveals and communicates Plath's universal message such acute perspicacity. 5* fav.

[DavidRandallCurtis]

PoetLina: Thanks for the comment and for the postcard. Mone and me decided not to try and take over your place while you were gallivanting around Europe.

THIS time. :P

[charlottepoet]

i feel like i should be snapping my fingers to your reading :)

and a plath wall? epic!

[DavidRandallCurtis]

charlottepoet: You mean you WEREN'T snapping your fingers???? For shame! :p

(thanks for the comment ;) )

[laurarox80]

Love what you've done with the wall there.

[loctia1]

Powerfully sardonic here as Plath would have wanted! Light and luck to you in this darker season.

Cheers, Hunter

[EllyMcCormack]

You are a constant awesomeness.

[msbunburyist]

Love how intense you are. Makes it oppositional, argumentative, lashing out, which I really like - it's a fantastic interpretation.

[santiagodevill]

That Sylvia was one hell of a women!!

I dig the background pictures of her too.

[melissais]

nice reading. :]

you did a very good job, so much passion.

[im glad you liked my video btw]

i like Sylvia Plath's work, and i enjoyed listening to you read it.

great job, 5 stars. :]