Psalm

Alicia Ostriker

2002

I am not lyric any more

I will not play the harp

for your pleasure

I will not make a joyful

noise to you, neither

will I lament

for I know you drink

lamentation, too,

like wine

so I dully repeat

you hurt me

I hate you

I pull my eyes away from the hills

I will not kill for you

I will never love you again

unless you ask me

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Alicia Ostriker

b. 1937

Alicia Ostriker, a poet and literary critic, grew up in New York and is a professor at Rutgers University as well as a faculty member of the New England College MFA Program. Twice nominated for a National Book Award, Ostriker has received numerous honors, including the Jewish Book Award for Poetry, and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations.

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