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                 Elisavietta Ritchie (1932-)

ELEGY FOR THE OTHER WOMAN

First Line:   May the plane of the other woman explode

The above poem appeared in the Autumn 1978 issue of The New York Quarterly. As such it is protected by copyright and cannot be displayed without permission of the copyright holder. A slightly revised version (beginning "May her plane explode") can be found in:

  • Ritchie, Elisavietta. Elegy for the Other Woman: New and Selected Terribly Female Poems. Chapel Hill, NC: Signal Books, 1996.