<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389859" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Egyptology</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am the Sphinx.<br>I am the woman buried in sand<br>up to her chin.<br>I am waiting for an archaeologist<br>to unearth me,<br>to dig out my neck & my nipples,<br>bare my claws<br>& solve my riddle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No one has solved my riddle<br>since Oedipus.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I face the pyramids which rise<br>like angular breasts<br>from the dry body of Egypt.<br>My fertile river is flowing down below-<br>a lovely lower kingdom.<br>Every woman should have a delta<br>with such rich silt-<br>brown as the buttocks<br>of Nubian queens.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O friend, why have you come to Egypt?<br>Aton & Yahweh<br>are still feuding.<br>Moses is leading his people<br>& speaking of guilt.<br>The voice out of the volcano<br>will not be still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A religion of death,<br>a woman buried alive.<br>For thousands of years<br>the sand drifted over my head.<br>My sex was a desert,<br>my hair more porous than pumice,<br>& nobody sucked my lips<br>to make me tell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pyramid breasts, though huge,<br>will never sag.<br>In the center of each one,<br>a king lies buried.<br>In the center of each one,<br>a darkened chamber. . .<br>a tunnel,<br>dead men's bones,<br>malignant gold.</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=389859" data-title="Egyptology de Erica Jong" data-description="I am the Sphinx. I am the woman buried in sand up to her chin. I am waiting for an archaeologist to unearth me, to dig out my neck & my nipples, bare my claws & solve my riddle. No one has solved my riddle since Oedipus. I face the pyramids whic..."></div> </div> </div>

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