Sylvia Plath poem linked with Romaine Brooks?

"If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.


You leave the same impression

Of something beautiful, but annihilating."
Sylvia Plath
 
This was recently linked with Romaine Brooks' "The Crossing" by a blogger. I found it interesting because it would have been more appropriate to Brooks who cut off the relationship with Ida Rubinstein while Ida was still madly in love with her. Ida was Brooks' most inspiring muse and the subject of at least three of her most successful nudes.

"It Breaks Your Heart": Join the Movement for Marriage Equality

Prop 8 and other outrages

The constitution appears not to be worth the paper it is written on. You might as well use it for your butt for all the attention our politicians and judges pay to it. GLBT people are citizens of these United States of American, not second class citizens paying first class taxes to be treated as a separate group somehow outside the protections of the constitutions and our laws simply because "some" people don't like them. In America supposedly according to our propaganda we are all supposed to have freedom to pursue happiness. Why Gays people's getting married to the one they love should be any one's business but their own is beyond me.
Now after Judge Walker has handed down a sane and common sense ruling the hate mongers are still managing to violate the constitution and prevent these couples from getting married. Now I don't think marriage is such a great state of affairs but a lot of other people do despite the horrendous divorce rate and its impact on children and families. So why not let gay folks try it on for size and apply the same laws, rights and responsibilities to them as to other citizens? It's really simple. Instead a kind of draconian set of rules has been applied to gay couples throughout the nation. While other so called 3rd world nations have simply passed fair and equal rights for GLBT and Q folks our "great" and "enlightened" nation has yet to do so.
Frankly, it makes me ashamed to be an American because it so flies in the face of our founding philosophy.
And while I am raving how about just allowing every Muslim woman (and man) who wants to get out from under the total barbarity of Sharia law just immigrate--wouldn't that be enlightened. Then stop spending billions of dollars getting our boys and girls killed for nothing! We have to stop the fear mongering and really deal with the problem. Bombing the hell out of other people isn't the answer. Leaving them to stew in their own acidic juices might be interesting while trying to keep their poison in check simply by isolating them within their so-called borders. It is not the US's job to be a world policeman. It is up to a community of "civilized" nations to band together and do so. Stoning is not civilized, cutting off noses and ears and heads is not civilized, lashing is not civilized and preventing women and girls from advancing is not civilized. Isn't it about time we simply said so and meant it.