<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389871" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fracture</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This constant ache<br>is my leg's message to me.<br>'Hello. Hello. Hello.<br>You're getting there,' it says,<br>'step by step.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Legs aren't stars<br>which sputter out<br>& go on gleaming anyway.<br>I've lived, of course,<br>with phantom limbs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but this fracture<br>doesn't point to<br>amputation. No.<br>It hisses at something<br>much more final.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Skin lantern,<br>necklace of teeth,<br>the bones & sinews<br>are in revolt against us.<br>We keep them down</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with little bribes:<br>vitamins, penicillin,<br>& now these pounds of plaster,<br>but they will bury us,<br>good Bolsheviks,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">& know it.<br>So they've got time to bide.<br>Meanwhile: spread-eagle<br>on these crutches, a cripple<br>sucking the ground with rubber</div><div style="margin:10px 0">nipples, or else a knight,<br>up to my ass in armor,<br>I limp & swing my way<br>across the street<br>& up the steps,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">moving, here & now,<br>step by step,<br>towards the future,<br>that incurable<br>fracture.</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=389871" data-title="Fracture de Erica Jong" data-description="This constant ache is my leg's message to me. 'Hello. Hello. Hello. You're getting there,' it says, 'step by step.' Legs aren't stars which sputter out & go on gleaming anyway. I've lived, of course, with phantom limbs but this fracture doesn't ..."></div> </div> </div>

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