<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391967" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Merry Window</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The alabaster legs of the lonely woman<br>hang from the window like white ensigns<br>out of the laughing window like false teeth<br>sheets, flagstaffs, telescopes, rolls of music,<br>or you would say beheaded necks of swans<br>or the electric horns of factories<br>where foreign dreams are nightly fabricated.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yearning for her coal once heaved in the seam<br>for her the sewers shrieked their way through London<br>and pigeons ate each other in the air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the deserted lady is frozen to the marrow<br>her heart has floated into her left leg<br>and her forked tongue asks in three languages<br>for a bassoon, a pyramid, and an egg.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the white birds have flown out of her lips<br>the Polar Bear has eaten her left breast<br>her eyes are covered with yellow webs of dust,<br>in fact she is what a Saint would call abandoned<br>since even her own self has forgotten her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Scarfe">Francis Scarfe</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=391967" data-title="The Merry Window de Francis Scarfe" data-description="The alabaster legs of the lonely woman hang from the window like white ensigns out of the laughing window like false teeth sheets, flagstaffs, telescopes, rolls of music, or you would say beheaded necks of swans or the electric horns of factories ..."></div> </div> </div>

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