<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389842" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Becoming a Nun</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Jennifer Josephy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On cold days<br>it is easy to be reasonable,<br>to button the mouth against kisses,<br>dust the breasts<br>with talcum powder<br>& forget<br>the red pulp meat<br>of the heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On those days<br>it beats<br>like a digital clock-<br>not a beat at all<br>but a steady whirring<br>chilly as green neon,<br>luminous as numerals in the dark,<br>cool as electricity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">& I think:<br>I can live without it all-<br>love with its blood pump,<br>sex with its messy hungers,<br>men with their peacock strutting,<br>their silly sexual baggage,<br>their wet tongues in my ear<br>& their words like little sugar suckers<br>with sour centers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On such days<br>I am zipped in my body suit,<br>I am wearing seven league red suede boots,<br>I am marching over the cobblestones<br>as if they were the heads of men,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">& I am happy<br>as a seven-year-old virgin<br>holding Daddy's hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't touch.<br>Don't try to tempt me with your ripe persimmons.<br>Don't threaten me with your volcano.<br>The sky is clearer when I'm not in heat,<br>& the poems<br>are colder.</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=389842" data-title="Becoming a Nun de Erica Jong" data-description="For Jennifer Josephy On cold days it is easy to be reasonable, to button the mouth against kisses, dust the breasts with talcum powder & forget the red pulp meat of the heart. On those days it beats like a digital clock- not a beat at all but a ..."></div> </div> </div>

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