She Was Dressed In Sunshine

"Nigger-eye," made me mad at Plath,

At the bint who had no business

With her ass peeking out from the oven

At 23 Fitzroy Road. "Sylvia, pet, are you quite done?"

It is 60 years from there to now,

That dubious nonsense I hope long dead.

For only moments ago I beheld, heroic,

Uzuri: a Black woman arrayed in yellow, with child...

[NOTE: Such trying times we live in! Really, the Gen Z and millennial kids have Marlene Dietrich to fall back on in that song when they consider what they have to blame Gen X and baby boomers for in this misbegotten world we're all obligated to help repair...]