Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia Plath
Left her socks on in the bath
Taught her own uterus how to do math
Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia Plath
Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia Plud
Dug for worms in dried-up mud
Six times nine and the answer’s blood
Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia Plud
Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia Plo
Tied a kite to a croak-eyed crow
Six times nine is an embry-o
Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia Plo
Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia Plate
Used her thumb as salmon bait
Six times nine is a neonate
Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia Plate
Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia Plume
Pooped in Tutankhamen’s tomb
Six times nine is an empty womb
Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia Plume
Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia Ploor
Head in the oven, feet on the floor
Six times nine is fifty-four
Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia Ploor
Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia died
Sylvia, Sylvia soo-ih-side
Sylvia’s uterus then applied
To teach Math for Girls (but was denied).
