<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389833" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Anti-Matter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not interested<br>in my body-<br>the part that stinks<br>& rots & brings forth<br>life,<br>the part that the ground<br>swallows,<br>death giving birth<br>to death-<br>all of life,<br>considered<br>from the body's<br>point of view,<br>is a downhill slide<br>& all our small<br>preservatives<br>& griefs<br>cannot reverse the trend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All sensualists<br>turn puritan<br>at the end-<br>turning up lust's soil<br>& finding bones<br>beneath the rich volcanic<br>dirt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some sleep in shrouds<br>& some in coffins;<br>some swear off<br>procreation, others turn<br>vegetarian, or worse:<br>they live on air-<br>on sheer platonic meals<br>of pure ideas;<br>once gluttons of the flesh,<br>they now become<br>gourmets of the mind.<br>How to resist that<br>when the spacious earth<br>swallows her children<br>so insatiably,<br>when all our space-age gods<br>are grounded,<br>& only the moan of pleasure<br>or the rasp of pain<br>can ever satisfy<br>the body's appetite?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">& yet my body,<br>in its dubious wisdom,<br>led to yours;<br>& you may<br>puzzle out<br>this mystery in your turn.<br>Choose mind, choose body,<br>choose to wed the two;<br>many have tried<br>but few have done the deed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through you, perhaps,<br>I may at last succeed.</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=389833" data-title="Anti-Matter de Erica Jong" data-description="I am not interested in my body- the part that stinks & rots & brings forth life, the part that the ground swallows, death giving birth to death- all of life, considered from the body's point of view, is a downhill slide & all our small preservativ..."></div> </div> </div>

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