<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389931" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Statue</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cement up to the neck<br>& my head packed<br>with unsaid words.<br>A gullet full of pebbles,<br>a mouth<br>of cast concrete-<br>I am stuck<br>in a lovelessness so thick,<br>it seems my natural element.<br>My mouth closes<br>on stones.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hand frozen to my chin,<br>my back a question mark,<br>my heart soldered<br>to its arteries,<br>my feet planted<br>in grass that cannot grow,<br>The Thinker ponders<br>ten more years of this:<br>a woman<br>living the life<br>of a statue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Break free!<br>Melt the metal<br>in love's cauldron,<br>open doors, eyes, heart,<br>those frozen ventricles,<br>those stuck tongues,<br>those stuttering dependencies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the statue walks,<br>will the world dissolve?<br>When she shakes her shoulders,<br>will the sky shrug<br>& skitter off in space?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or will the clouds cluster<br>to cover her,<br>& the blue wind gather<br>at her shoulders<br>& the men streak by<br>like jet trails in the air,<br>utterly ephemeral?</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=389931" data-title="Statue de Erica Jong" data-description="Cement up to the neck & my head packed with unsaid words. A gullet full of pebbles, a mouth of cast concrete- I am stuck in a lovelessness so thick, it seems my natural element. My mouth closes on stones. Hand frozen to my chin, my back a questio..."></div> </div> </div>

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