<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364183" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Play Again</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Late in 1962 New York newspapers reported the story of a nine-year-<br> old child being raped on a roof, and hurled twenty stories to the<br> ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I draw near to the roof's edge<br> and seek someone to lift<br> and hurl me out into vacant air.<br> I want to turn over and over<br> rapidly in my plunge, my mouth<br> open to scream but air rushing<br> upwards jams my throat.<br> I am seeking the peace<br> I never once gave up on<br> and this is the final way to find it. The living<br> share me among them. They taste<br> me on the ground, they taste me<br> in the air descending. They taste<br> me screaming, nine years old.<br> I have playmates<br> and I leave behind my skull<br> in their dreams, hands to mouths.<br> It is because they have no help,<br> as if to hint to them the way,<br> if they would understand.<br> When we played it was to love each other<br> in games. Play again and love me<br> until I really die, when you are old<br> on a flight of stairs.</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=364183" data-title="Play Again de David Ignatow" data-description="Late in 1962 New York newspapers reported the story of a nine-year- old child being raped on a roof, and hurled twenty stories to the ground. I draw near to the roof's edge and seek someone to lift and hurl me out into vacant air. I want to..."></div> </div> </div>

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