<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389917" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Paper Cuts</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Endless duplication of lives and objects....<br>-Theodore Roethke</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have known the imperial power of secretaries,<br>the awesome indifference of receptionists,<br>I have been intimidated by desk & typewriter,<br>by the silver jaws of the stapler<br>& the lecherous kiss of the mucilage,<br>& the unctuousness of rubber cement<br>before it dries.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have been afraid of telephones,<br>have put my mouth to their stale tobacco breath,<br>have been jarred to terror<br>by their jangling midnight music,<br>& their sudden blackness<br>even when they are white.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have been afraid in elevators<br>amid the satin hiss of cables<br>& the silky lisping of air conditioners<br>& the helicopter blades of fans.<br>I have seen time killed in the office jungles<br>of undeclared war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My fear has crept into the paper guillotine<br>& voyaged to the Arctic Circle of the water cooler.<br>My fear has followed me into the locked Ladies Room,<br>& down the iron fire stairs<br>to the postage meter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have seen the mailroom women like lost letters<br>frayed around the edges.<br>I have seen the Xerox room men<br>shuffling in & out among each other<br>like cards in identical decks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have come to tell you I have survived.<br>I bring you chains of paperclips instead of emeralds.<br>I bring you lottery tickets instead of poems.<br>I bring you mucilage instead of love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I lay my body out before you on the desk.<br>I spread my hair amid a maze of rubber stamps.<br>RUSH. SPECIAL DELIVERY. DO NOT BEND.<br>I am open-will you lick me like an envelope?<br>I am bleeding-will you kiss my paper cuts?</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=389917" data-title="Paper Cuts de Erica Jong" data-description="Endless duplication of lives and objects.... -Theodore Roethke I have known the imperial power of secretaries, the awesome indifference of receptionists, I have been intimidated by desk & typewriter, by the silver jaws of the stapler & the lecher..."></div> </div> </div>

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