<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389889" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Praise of Clothes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If it is only for the taking off-<br>the velvet cloak,<br>the ostrich feather boa,<br>the dress which slithers to the floor<br>with the sound of strange men sighing<br>on imagined street corners. . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If it is only for the taking off-<br>the red lace bra<br>(with rosewindows of breasts),<br>the red lace pants<br>(with dark suggestion<br>of Venus' first name),<br>the black net stockings<br>cobwebby as fate,<br>criscrossed like our lives,<br>the silver sandals<br>glimmering as rain-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">clothes are necessary.<br>Oh bulky barrier between soul & soul,<br>soul & self-<br>how it comforts us<br>to take you down!<br>How it heartens us to strip you off!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">& this is no matter of fashion.</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=389889" data-title="In Praise of Clothes de Erica Jong" data-description="If it is only for the taking off- the velvet cloak, the ostrich feather boa, the dress which slithers to the floor with the sound of strange men sighing on imagined street corners. . . If it is only for the taking off- the red lace bra (with rose..."></div> </div> </div>

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