<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389988" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Without Parachutes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The experience of fear is not an observer of it; he is fear itself, the very instrument of fear.<br>-J. Krishnamurti</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In dreams I descend<br>into the cave of my past:<br>a child with a morgue-tag<br>on its toe,<br>the terrible metal squeaking<br>of the morgue-drawers,<br>& the chilly basement<br>& the slam of doors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or else I am setting up dreamhouse,<br>with the wife<br>of my second ex-husband.<br>She complains of him<br>with breaking sorrow-<br>& I comfort her.<br>(She only married him, it seems, for me).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes I wake up naked<br>in Beverly Hills-<br>the table set for ten, a formal dinner-<br>a studio chief on my left side,<br>a fabled actor on my right.<br>Across the table,<br>Greta Garbo, Scott Fitzgerald,<br>John F. Kennedy & Marilyn Monroe-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">& I alone not properly dressed for dinner,<br>& besides unprepared<br>for the final exam,<br>in which our immortality<br>will be tested,<br>& one of us shall perish<br>as dessert.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Send parachutes & kisses!<br>Send them quick!<br>I am descending into the cave<br>of my own fear.<br>My feet are weighted<br>with the leg-irons of the past.<br>The elevator plummets<br>in the shaft.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">trapped, trapped in the bowels<br>of my dream,<br>locked in the cellar<br>by myself the jailer.<br>Rats and spiders scuttle<br>through the coal bin.<br>I cower in the corner.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am fear.</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=389988" data-title="Without Parachutes de Erica Jong" data-description="The experience of fear is not an observer of it; he is fear itself, the very instrument of fear. -J. Krishnamurti In dreams I descend into the cave of my past: a child with a morgue-tag on its toe, the terrible metal squeaking of the morgue-drawe..."></div> </div> </div>

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