<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389831" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Another Language</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The whole world is flat<br>& I am round.<br>Even women avert their eyes,<br>& men, embarrassed<br>by the messy way<br>that life turns into life,<br>look away,<br>forgetting they themselves<br>were once this roundness<br>underneath the heart,<br>this helpless fish<br>swimming in eternity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sound of O,<br>not the sound of I<br>embarrasses the world.<br>My friends, who voluntarily have made<br>their bodies flat,<br>their writings flat as grief,<br>look at me in disbelief.<br>What is this large unseemly thing-<br>a pregnant poet?<br>an enormous walking O?<br>Oh take all the letters of the alphabet but that!<br>We speak the Esperanto of the flat!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Condemned to sign<br>language & silence, pregnant poems<br>for men to snicker at,<br>for women to denounce,<br>I live alone.<br>My world is round<br>& bounded by the mountain of my fear;<br>while all the great geographers agree<br>the world is flat<br>& roundness cannot be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erica+Jong">Erica Jong</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=389831" data-title="Another Language de Erica Jong" data-description="The whole world is flat & I am round. Even women avert their eyes, & men, embarrassed by the messy way that life turns into life, look away, forgetting they themselves were once this roundness underneath the heart, this helpless fish swimming in e..."></div> </div> </div>

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