<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452503" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Variations on the Word Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is a word we use to plug<br>holes with. It's the right size for those warm<br>blanks in speech, for those red heart-<br>shaped vacancies on the page that look nothing<br>like real hearts. Add lace<br>and you can sell<br>it. We insert it also in the one empty<br>space on the printed form<br>that comes with no instructions. There are whole<br>magazines with not much in them<br>but the word love, you can<br>rub it all over your body and you<br>can cook with it too. How do we know<br>it isn't what goes on at the cool<br>debaucheries of slugs under damp<br>pieces of cardboard? As for the weed-<br>seedlings nosing their tough snouts up<br>among the lettuces, they shout it.<br>Love! Love! sing the soldiers, raising<br>their glittering knives in salute.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then there's the two<br>of us. This word<br>is far too short for us, it has only<br>four letters, too sparse<br>to fill those deep bare<br>vacuums between the stars<br>that press on us with their deafness.<br>It's not love we don't wish<br>to fall into, but that fear.<br>this word is not enough but it will<br>have to do. It's a single<br>vowel in this metallic<br>silence, a mouth that says<br>O again and again in wonder<br>and pain, a breath, a finger<br>grip on a cliffside. You can<br>hold on or let go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Atwood">Margaret Atwood</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=452503" data-title="Variations on the Word Love de Margaret Atwood" data-description="This is a word we use to plug holes with. It's the right size for those warm blanks in speech, for those red heart- shaped vacancies on the page that look nothing like real hearts. Add lace and you can sell it. We insert it also in the one empty s..."></div> </div> </div>

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