<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389846" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>By Train from Berlin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A delicate border. A nonexistent country.<br>The train obligingly dissolves in smoke.<br>The G.I. next to me is talking war.<br>I don't 'know the Asian mind,' he says.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Moving through old arguments.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At Potsdam (a globe-shaped dome,<br>a pink canal reflecting sepia trees)<br>we pull next to a broken-down old train<br>with REICHSBAHN lettered on its flank.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thirty years sheer away leaving bare cliff.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is a country I don't recognize.<br>Bone-pale girls who have nothing to do with home.<br>Everyone's taller than me, everyone naked.<br>'Life's cheap there,' he says.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But why are we screaming over a track<br>which runs between a barbed wire corridor?<br>And why has it grown so dark outside,<br>so bright in here</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that even the pared moon is invisible?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the window we can only see ourselves,<br>America we carry with us,<br>two scared people talking death<br>on a train which can't stop.</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=389846" data-title="By Train from Berlin de Erica Jong" data-description="A delicate border. A nonexistent country. The train obligingly dissolves in smoke. The G.I. next to me is talking war. I don't 'know the Asian mind,' he says. Moving through old arguments. At Potsdam (a globe-shaped dome, a pink canal reflecting..."></div> </div> </div>

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