<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389911" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Reading a Vast Anthology</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love, death, sleeping<br>with somebody else's husband<br>or wife-this<br>is what poetry is<br>about-Eskimo, Aztec,<br>or even Italian<br>Rinascimento,<br>or even the high falutin Greeks<br>or noble Roman-O's.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O the constant turmoil<br>of the human species-<br>beds, graves, Spring with its<br>familiar rosebuds, the wrong beds,<br>the wrong graves, wars<br>unremembered & boundaries gained<br>only to be lost & lost<br>again<br>& lost roses whose lost<br>petals<br>reminded poets to carpe, carpe<br>diem with whoever's wife<br>or husband happened to<br>be handiest!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Turmoil & Confusion-<br>you are my Muses!<br>O longing for a world<br>without death, without beds<br>divided by walls between houses!<br>All the beds float out to sea!<br>All the dying lovers wave<br>to the other dying lovers!<br>One of them writes on his mistress's skin as he floats.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is the poet.<br>Not for this<br>will his life be spared.</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=389911" data-title="On Reading a Vast Anthology de Erica Jong" data-description="Love, death, sleeping with somebody else's husband or wife-this is what poetry is about-Eskimo, Aztec, or even Italian Rinascimento, or even the high falutin Greeks or noble Roman-O's. O the constant turmoil of the human species- beds, graves, Sp..."></div> </div> </div>

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