<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340245" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Conversation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We smile at each other<br>and I lean back against the wicker couch.<br>How does it feel to be dead? I say.<br>You touch my knees with your blue fingers.<br>And when you open your mouth,<br>a ball of yellow light falls to the floor<br>and burns a hole through it.<br>Don't tell me, I say. I don't want to hear.<br>Did you ever, you start,<br>wear a certain kind of dress<br>and just by accident,<br>so inconsequential you barely notice it,<br>your fingers graze that dress<br>and you hear the sound of a knife cutting paper,<br>you see it too<br>and you realize how that image<br>is simply the extension of another image,<br>that your own life<br>is a chain of words<br>that one day will snap.<br>Words, you say, young girls in a circle, holding hands,<br>and beginning to rise heavenward<br>in their confirmation dresses,<br>like white helium balloons,<br>the wreathes of flowers on their heads spinning,<br>and above all that,<br>that's where I'm floating,<br>and that's what it's like<br>only ten times clearer,<br>ten times more horrible.<br>Could anyone alive survive it?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ai+Ogawa">Ai Ogawa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340245" data-title="Conversation de Ai Ogawa" data-description="We smile at each other and I lean back against the wicker couch. How does it feel to be dead? I say. You touch my knees with your blue fingers. And when you open your mouth, a ball of yellow light falls to the floor and burns a hole through it. Do..."></div> </div> </div>

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