<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366818" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In The Naked Bed, In Plato's Cave</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the naked bed, in Plato's cave, <br>Reflected headlights slowly slid the wall,<br>Carpenters hammered under the shaded window,<br>Wind troubled the window curtains all night long,<br>A fleet of trucks strained uphill, grinding,<br>Their freights covered, as usual.<br>The ceiling lightened again, the slanting diagram<br>Slid slowly forth.<br> Hearing the milkman's clop,<br>his striving up the stair, the bottle's chink,<br>I rose from bed, lit a cigarette,<br>And walked to the window. The stony street<br>Displayed the stillness in which buildings stand,<br>The street-lamp's vigil and the horse's patience.<br>The winter sky's pure capital<br>Turned me back to bed with exhausted eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strangeness grew in the motionless air. The loose<br>Film grayed. Shaking wagons, hooves' waterfalls,<br>Sounded far off, increasing, louder and nearer.<br>A car coughed, starting. Morning softly<br>Melting the air, lifted the half-covered chair<br>From underseas, kindled the looking-glass,<br>Distinguished the dresser and the white wall.<br>The bird called tentatively, whistled, called,<br>Bubbled and whistled, so! Perplexed, still wet<br>With sleep, affectionate, hungry and cold. So, so,<br>O son of man, the ignorant night, the travail<br>Of early morning, the mystery of the beginning<br>Again and again,<br> while history is unforgiven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Delmore+Schwartz">Delmore Schwartz</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=366818" data-title="In The Naked Bed, In Plato's Cave de Delmore Schwartz" data-description="In the naked bed, in Plato's cave, Reflected headlights slowly slid the wall, Carpenters hammered under the shaded window, Wind troubled the window curtains all night long, A fleet of trucks strained uphill, grinding, Their freights covered, as u..."></div> </div> </div>

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