<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389964" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sheets</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We used to meet<br>on this corner<br>in the same wind.<br>It fought us up the hill<br>to your house,<br>blew us in the door.<br>The elevator rose<br>on guests of stale air<br>fed on ancient dinners.<br>Your room smelled<br>of roach spray and roses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In those days<br>we went to bed with Marvell.<br>The wind ruffled sheets and pages,<br>spoke to us through walls.<br>For hours I used to lie<br>with my ear to your bare chest,<br>listening for the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the wind is tearing<br>the building down.<br>The sheets are rising.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They billow through the air like sails.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">White with your semen<br>holding invisible prints<br>of the people we were,<br>the people we might have been,<br>they said across the country<br>disguised as clouds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Momentarily they snag<br>on the Rocky Mountains,<br>then rise<br>shredded into streamers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now they are bannering westward<br>over California<br>where your existence<br>is rumored.</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=389964" data-title="The Sheets de Erica Jong" data-description="We used to meet on this corner in the same wind. It fought us up the hill to your house, blew us in the door. The elevator rose on guests of stale air fed on ancient dinners. Your room smelled of roach spray and roses. In those days we went to be..."></div> </div> </div>

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