<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389904" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Love Is Too Much</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My love is too much-<br>it embarrasses you-<br>blood, poems, babies,<br>red needs that telephone<br>from foreign countries,<br>black needs that spatter<br>the pages<br>of your white papery heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You would rather have a girl<br>with simpler needs:<br>lunch, sex, undemanding<br>loving,<br>dinner, wine, bed,<br>the occasional blow-job<br>& needs that are never<br>red as gaping wounds<br>but cool & blue<br>as television screens<br>in tract houses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh my love,<br>those simple girls<br>with simple needs<br>read my books too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They tell me they feel<br>the same as I do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They tell me I transcribe<br>the language of their hearts.<br>They tell me I translate<br>their mute, unspoken pain<br>into the white light<br>of language.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh love,<br>no love<br>is ever wholly undemanding.<br>It can pretend coolness<br>until the pain comes,<br>until the first baby comes,<br>howling her own infant need<br>into a universe<br>that never summoned her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The love you seek<br>cannot be found<br>except in the white pages<br>of recipe books.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is cooking you seek,<br>not love,<br>cooking with sex coming after,<br>cool sex<br>that speaks to the penis alone,<br>& not the howling chaos<br>of the heart.</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=389904" data-title="My Love Is Too Much de Erica Jong" data-description="My love is too much- it embarrasses you- blood, poems, babies, red needs that telephone from foreign countries, black needs that spatter the pages of your white papery heart. You would rather have a girl with simpler needs: lunch, sex, undemandin..."></div> </div> </div>

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