<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389835" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At the Museum of Natural History</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lessons we learned here<br>(fumbling with our lunchbags,<br>handkerchiefs<br>& secret cheeks of bubblegum)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">were graver than any<br>in the schoolroom:<br>the dangers of a life<br>frozen into poses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trilobites in their<br>petrified ghettos,<br>lumbering dinosaurs<br>who'd outsized themselves</div><div style="margin:10px 0">told how nature was<br>an endless morality play<br>in which the cockroach<br>(& all such beadyeyed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">exemplars of adjustment)<br>might well recite the epilogue.<br>No one was safe<br>but stagnation was</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the surest suicide.<br>To mankind's Hamlet,<br>what six-legged creature would play<br>Fortinbras? It made you scratch</div><div style="margin:10px 0">your head & think<br>for about two minutes.<br>Going out, I remember<br>how we stopped to look at<br>Teddy Roosevelt,<br>(Soldier, Statesman, Naturalist,<br>Hunter, Historian,<br>et cetera, et cetera).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His bronze bulk (four times life size)<br>bestrode Central Park West<br>like a colossus.<br>His monumental horse</div><div style="margin:10px 0">snorted towards the park.<br>Oh, we were full of Evolution & its lessons<br>When (the girls giggling madly,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the boys blushing) we peeked<br>between those huge legs to see<br>those awe-inspiring<br>Brobdingnagian balls.</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=389835" data-title="At the Museum of Natural History de Erica Jong" data-description="The lessons we learned here (fumbling with our lunchbags, handkerchiefs & secret cheeks of bubblegum) were graver than any in the schoolroom: the dangers of a life frozen into poses. Trilobites in their petrified ghettos, lumbering dinosaurs who..."></div> </div> </div>

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