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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389838" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Autumn Perspective</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, moving in, cartons on the floor,<br>the radio playing to bare walls,<br>picture hooks left stranded<br>in the unsoiled squares where paintings were,<br>and something reminding us<br>this is like all other moving days;<br>finding the dirty ends of someone else's life,<br>hair fallen in the sink, a peach pit,<br>and burned-out matches in the corner;<br>things not preserved, yet never swept away<br>like fragments of disturbing dreams<br>we stumble on all day. . .<br>in ordering our lives, we will discard them,<br>scrub clean the floorboards of this our home<br>lest refuse from the lives we did not lead<br>become, in some strange, frightening way, our own.<br>And we have plans that will not tolerate<br>our fears-- a year laid out like rooms<br>in a new house--the dusty wine glasses<br>rinsed off, the vases filled, and bookshelves<br>sagging with heavy winter books.<br>Seeing the room always as it will be,<br>we are content to dust and wait.<br>We will return here from the dark and silent<br>streets, arms full of books and food,<br>anxious as we always are in winter,<br>and looking for the Good Life we have made.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see myself then: tense, solemn,<br>in high-heeled shoes that pinch,<br>not basking in the light of goals fulfilled,<br>but looking back to now and seeing<br>a lazy, sunburned, sandaled girl<br>in a bare room, full of promise<br>and feeling envious.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now we plan, postponing, pushing our lives forward<br>into the future--as if, when the room<br>contains us and all our treasured junk<br>we will have filled whatever gap it is<br>that makes us wander, discontented<br>from ourselves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The room will not change:<br>a rug, or armchair, or new coat of paint<br>won't make much difference;<br>our eyes are fickle<br>but we remain the same beneath our suntans,<br>pale, frightened,<br>dreaming ourselves backward and forward in time,<br>dreaming our dreaming selves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I look forward and see myself looking back.</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>
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the radio playing to bare walls,
picture hooks left stranded
in the unsoiled squares where paintings were,
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this is like all other moving days;
finding the dirty ends of someone else'..."></div>
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