<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Perfect Poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He says he is a perfect poet.<br>He lives alone, with his perfect mate.<br>& sometimes they don't even speak,<br>So perfectly do they 'communicate.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He lives alone, his greatest pleasures are<br>His pipes, his books, his wife's behind-<br>Which he will often pinch to hear her laugh;<br>He's got a perfect love for womankind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He seldom writes, distrusting language as<br>A clumsy tool, unequal to his thoughts:<br>He uses it as rarely as he can<br>(No doubt to punish it for all its faults).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when he writes, he keeps the upper hand<br>(On principle, since words are enemies).<br>He melts them down, then counterfeits his own-<br>A kind of literary alchemy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He's fortunate to have a perfect muse.<br>A live-in muse, who cooks inspiringly;<br>And sometimes after an ambrosial meal,<br>He'll grab his pen, composing feverishly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A perfect poem, describing in detail<br>The salad, wine, the roast in buttery baste.<br>And reading it, his musing wife agrees<br>That every line smacks of his perfect taste.</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=389958" data-title="The Perfect Poet de Erica Jong" data-description="He says he is a perfect poet. He lives alone, with his perfect mate. & sometimes they don't even speak, So perfectly do they 'communicate.' He lives alone, his greatest pleasures are His pipes, his books, his wife's behind- Which he will often pi..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black