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Mentally Trapped

May 10, 2018
By Anonymous

I don’t sleep

Optic horror of     vicious         trapped       crawling      shadows 
Wallowing out of the window
Burning the house as she crawls around fast
Dreadfully fretful
A hysterical       artful       sin
I neglect proper self control
I take ahold of the bars and shake them, hard
Securely fastened by the rope
Strangles me

I’m trapped

From “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.


The author's comments:

I read "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and decided to do a found potery of the reading. 


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