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# Lady Lazarus Worries Me
- URL: https://www.merionwest.com/lady-lazarus-worries-me/
- Published: 2026-06-26T20:14:18.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-01T22:23:43.000Z
- Description: Drema Drudge
- Author: MW Editors
- Tags: Poetry, Arts

> *after Sylvia Plath* 

> Her poem’s zigzagging lines.  
> Its shout buried  
> in soap and  
> fury.

> The admission  
> of having tried it  
> twice before,  
> though it didn’t stick

> should have warned us.

> God, I wish someone  
> had read it closer.  
> Had *known*.

> Had said,

>  
> *Girl,*

> get your head  
> out of the  
> oven.

> *Please.*

### [Drema Drudge](https://www.merionwest.com/the-unexpected-harte/) is a novelist and poet in Indiana.