<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389866" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For Claudia, Against Narrowness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Narrowing life because of the fears,<br>narrowing it between the dust motes,<br>narrowing the pink baby<br>between the green-limbed monsters,<br>& the drooling idiots,<br>& the ghosts of the Thalidomide infants,<br>narrowing hope,<br>always narrowing hope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mother sits on one shoulder hissing:<br>Life is dangerous.<br>Father sits on the other sighing:<br>Lucky you.<br>Grandmother, grandfather, big sister:<br>You'll die if you leave us,<br>you'll die if you ever leave us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweetheart, baby sister,<br>you'll die anyway<br>& so will I.<br>Even if you walk the wide greensward,<br>even if you<br>& your beautiful big belly<br>embrace the world of men & trees,<br>even if you moan with pleasure,<br>& smoke the sweet grass<br>& feast on strawberries in bed,<br>you'll die anyway-<br>wide or narrow,<br>you're going to die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As long as you're at it,<br>die wide.<br>Follow your belly to the green pasture.<br>Lie down in the sun's dapple.<br>Life is not as dangerous<br>as mother said.<br>It is more dangerous,<br>more wide.</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=389866" data-title="For Claudia, Against Narrowness de Erica Jong" data-description="Narrowing life because of the fears, narrowing it between the dust motes, narrowing the pink baby between the green-limbed monsters, & the drooling idiots, & the ghosts of the Thalidomide infants, narrowing hope, always narrowing hope. Mother sit..."></div> </div> </div>

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