<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384031" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Letter To N.Y.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Louise Crane</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In your next letter I wish you'd say<br>where you are going and what you are doing;<br>how are the plays and after the plays<br>what other pleasures you're pursuing:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">taking cabs in the middle of the night,<br>driving as if to save your soul<br>where the road gose round and round the park<br>and the meter glares like a moral owl,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the trees look so queer and green<br>standing alone in big black caves<br>and suddenly you're in a different place<br>where everything seems to happen in waves,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and most of the jokes you just can't catch, <br>like dirty words rubbed off a slate,<br>and the songs are loud but somehow dim<br>and it gets so teribly late,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and coming out of the brownstone house<br>to the gray sidewalk, the watered street,<br>one side of the buildings rises with the sun<br>like a glistening field of wheat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">--Wheat, not oats, dear. I'm afraid<br>if it's wheat it's none of your sowing, <br>nevertheless I'd like to know<br>what you are doing and where you are going.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Bishop">Elizabeth Bishop</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=384031" data-title="Letter To N.Y. de Elizabeth Bishop" data-description="For Louise Crane In your next letter I wish you'd say where you are going and what you are doing; how are the plays and after the plays what other pleasures you're pursuing: taking cabs in the middle of the night, driving as if to save your sou..."></div> </div> </div>

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