<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389938" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bed of the World</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The great bed of the world<br>arching over graves<br>over Babi Yar<br>with its multitude of bones,<br>with battalions of screams<br>frozen in a concrete glacier,<br>with pillows of earth<br>and comforters of green grass<br>covering all that dead flesh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dead flesh shall live again-<br>a dream in god's endless night-<br>rise green out of the earth<br>as grass, as trees, as tomato stalks<br>bearing a bright red fruit<br>and the feuds of man-and womankind<br>shall be fed again from the same seeds:<br>the tomato, the mythic pomegranate, the biblical apple<br>all rising from the grass that springs<br>out of the screams of stopped mouths.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes I dream<br>that my bed is built over a ravine,<br>the ravine of Babi Yar, any ravine<br>where thousands died<br>and I moan in pleasure to propitiate the earth,<br>to make fruit ripen<br>and trees wave green leaves like banners<br>all because love can touch me still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is never enough to create.<br>The beast must feed its meat teeth too.<br>Out of the screaming mouth of earth<br>we feed the grass that covers<br>all our beds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wish I did not know all that I know.<br>Galaxies spin, grass grows, and people kill.<br>We are the only race to murder for our dreams-<br>and not for hunger,<br>hungering for dreams</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=389938" data-title="The Bed of the World de Erica Jong" data-description="The great bed of the world arching over graves over Babi Yar with its multitude of bones, with battalions of screams frozen in a concrete glacier, with pillows of earth and comforters of green grass covering all that dead flesh. Dead flesh shall ..."></div> </div> </div>

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