<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427751" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Anti-heroine</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd planned to be Heathcliff's Cathy, <br>Lady Brett, Nicole or Dominique or Scarlett O'Hara. <br>I hadn't planned to be folding up the laundry <br>In uncombed hair and last night's smudged mascara, <br>An expert on buying Fritos, cleaning the cat box, <br>Finding lost sneakers, playing hide and seek. <br>And other things unknown to Heathcliff's <br>Cathy, Scarlett, Lady Brett, and Dominique. <br>Why am I never running through the heather? <br>Why am I never used by Howard Roark? <br>Why am I never going to Pamplona<br>Instead of Philadelphia and Newark? <br>How did I ever wind up with an Irving <br>When what I'd always had in mind was Rhett, <br>Or someone more appropriate to <br>Cathy, Dominique, Nicole, or Lady Brett? <br>I saw myself as heedless, heartless, headstrong, <br>An untamed woman searching for her mate. <br>And there he is -- with charcoal, fork, and apron, <br>Prepared to broil some hot dogs on the grate. <br>I haven't wrecked his life or his digestion <br>With unrequited love or jealous wrath. <br>He Doesn't know that secretly <br>I'm Scarlett, Dominique, Nicole, or Brett, or Cathy. <br>Why am I never cracking up in Zurich? <br>Why am I never languishing on moors? <br>Why am I never spoiled by faithful servants <br>Instead of spraying ant spray on the floors? <br>The tricycles are cluttering my foyer, <br>The Pop Tart crumbs are sprinkled on my soul. <br>And every year it's harder to be <br>Cathy, Dominique, Brett, Scarlett, and Nicole.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Judith+Viorst">Judith Viorst</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=427751" data-title="Anti-heroine de Judith Viorst" data-description="I'd planned to be Heathcliff's Cathy, Lady Brett, Nicole or Dominique or Scarlett O'Hara. I hadn't planned to be folding up the laundry In uncombed hair and last night's smudged mascara, An expert on buying Fritos, cleaning the cat box, Findi..."></div> </div> </div>

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