<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389920" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Playing with the Boys</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the boring tedious young men<br>with dead eyes & dirty hair . . .<br>all the mad young men who hate their mothers,<br>all the squalling baby boys . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">have grown up<br>& now write book reviews<br>or novels about the life<br>of the knife-fighter,<br>or movies in which grown men<br>torture each other-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">all the squalling boring baby boys!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not part of their game.<br>I have no penis.<br>I have a pen, two eyes<br>& I bleed monthly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the moon shines on the sea<br>I see the babies<br>riding on the moonwaves<br>asking to be born.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Does everything else in nature hate<br>its mother?<br>Does the chick fling<br>bits of eggshell at the hen?<br>Does the pear spit<br>its seeds against the pear tree?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who made all these squalling baby boys?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a reasonable, hardworking woman.<br>I sit at my desk & write<br>from eight to three.<br>When I emerge I do not ask your blessing.<br>What have I done but bleed<br>to get your curse?</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=389920" data-title="Playing with the Boys de Erica Jong" data-description="All the boring tedious young men with dead eyes & dirty hair . . . all the mad young men who hate their mothers, all the squalling baby boys . . . have grown up & now write book reviews or novels about the life of the knife-fighter, or movies in ..."></div> </div> </div>

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