<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364165" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Coupling</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wherever he looks, standing still in the city,<br>are people born of coupling, walking in gray suits<br>and ties, in long dresses and coiffed hair,<br>speaking elegantly, of themselves and of each other,<br>forgetting for the moment their origin,<br>perhaps wishing not to know or to remember.<br>They dress as if having been born in a clothing store.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were born of men and women naked<br>and gyrating from the hips<br>and with movements up and down<br>and with climactic yells,<br>as if losing their lives<br>in the pleasure and so glad,<br>so wildly glad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From this rises the child<br>from between the wet crotch, blood and mucus,<br>He stands upright and pronounces himself<br>humankind and steps from bed and clothes himself<br>in a gray suit and from the next room of birth<br>steps a woman in a long dress. They meet<br>in the corridor and arm in arm walk its length<br>in search of one room, empty of inhabitants<br>but prepared for them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Ignatow">David Ignatow</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=364165" data-title="Coupling de David Ignatow" data-description="Wherever he looks, standing still in the city, are people born of coupling, walking in gray suits and ties, in long dresses and coiffed hair, speaking elegantly, of themselves and of each other, forgetting for the moment their origin, perhaps wish..."></div> </div> </div>

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