<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389840" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beast, Book, Body</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was sick of being a woman,<br>sick of the pain,<br>the irrelevant detail of sex,<br>my own concavity<br>uselessly hungering<br>and emptier whenever it was filled,<br>and filled finally<br>by its own emptiness,<br>seeking the garden of solitude<br>instead of men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The white bed<br>in the green garden--<br>I looked forward<br>to sleeping alone<br>the way some long<br>for a lover.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even when you arrived,<br>I tried to beat you<br>away with my sadness,<br>my cynical seductions,<br>and my trick of<br>turning a slave<br>into a master.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all because<br>you made<br>my fingertips ache<br>and my eyes cross<br>in passion<br>that did not know its own name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bear, beast, lover<br>of the book of my body,<br>you turned my pages<br>and discovered<br>what was there<br>to be written<br>on the other side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now<br>I am blank<br>for you,<br>a tabula rasa<br>ready to be printed<br>with letters<br>in an undiscovered language<br>by the great press<br>of our love.</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=389840" data-title="Beast, Book, Body de Erica Jong" data-description="I was sick of being a woman, sick of the pain, the irrelevant detail of sex, my own concavity uselessly hungering and emptier whenever it was filled, and filled finally by its own emptiness, seeking the garden of solitude instead of men. The whit..."></div> </div> </div>

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