<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389957" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Other Side of the Page</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pass to the other side of the page.<br>-Pablo Neruda</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the other side of the page<br>where the last days go,<br>where the lost poems go,<br>where the forgotten dreams<br>breaking up like morning fog</div><div style="margin:10px 0">go<br>go<br>go</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am preparing myself for death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am teaching myself emptiness:<br>the gambler's hunger for love,<br>the nun's hunger for God,<br>the child's hunger for chocolate<br>in the brown hours<br>of the dark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am teaching myself love:<br>the lean love of marble<br>kissed away by rain,<br>the cold kisses of snow crystals<br>on granite grave markers,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the soul kisses of snow<br>as it melts in the spring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the other side of the page<br>I lie making a snow angel<br>with the arcs<br>of my arms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I lie like a fallen skier<br>who never wants to get up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I lie with my poles, my pens<br>flung around me in the snow<br>too far to reach.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The snow seeps<br>into the hollows of my bones<br>& the calcium white of the page<br>silts me in like a fossil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am fixed in my longing for speech,<br>I am buried in the snowbank of my poems,<br>I am here where you find me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">dead</div><div style="margin:10px 0">on the other side of the page.</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=389957" data-title="The Other Side of the Page de Erica Jong" data-description="I pass to the other side of the page. -Pablo Neruda On the other side of the page where the last days go, where the lost poems go, where the forgotten dreams breaking up like morning fog go go go I am preparing myself for death. I am teaching ..."></div> </div> </div>

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