<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>You Hate the Telephone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You hate the telephone<br>but will not see me<br>face to face<br>so I am left<br>beseeching you<br>long-distance,<br>trying to thread our love<br>along the telephone poles<br>of Vermont,<br>trying to tunnel it<br>under the Atlantic<br>as if it were<br>a rare fossil<br>I'd unearthed,<br>or an offshore pipe<br>bearing precious oil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But it is your face<br>I love,<br>your funny grin<br>that now seems<br>cruel around the edges.<br>You do not wish to be<br>cruel-you,<br>the kindest person in the world,<br>but driven to curious<br>rages<br>when you feel<br>pressured, frustrated,<br>saddled with<br>an albatross of love<br>like an ancient<br>mariner<br>who tells his same sad story<br>to the wedding guests.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The telephone will not<br>suffice.<br>Coleridge would have<br>loathed it,<br>& so would his<br>mariner.<br>It is our modern<br>Person from Porlock,<br>interrupting poems,<br>interrupting loves<br>& forever<br>keeping us at arm's length.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would look you in the eye<br>again, saying yes, yes, yes-<br>we have said no enough,<br>for the rest<br>of many lifetimes.</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=389991" data-title="You Hate the Telephone de Erica Jong" data-description="You hate the telephone but will not see me face to face so I am left beseeching you long-distance, trying to thread our love along the telephone poles of Vermont, trying to tunnel it under the Atlantic as if it were a rare fossil I'd unearthed, or..."></div> </div> </div>

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