<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535684" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Icarus Of Housewives, Circa 1981</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">From ashtrays he rises<br>when birds in backyards<br>have been fed their seed, <br>a dove amid the starlings.<br>In smoke filled stupor we stare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Icarus climbs our stairs, <br>waves his muscled arms<br>in doorways mimicking <br>the starlings in stocking feet.<br>He feels his way blindly <br>down hallways, a whirlwind <br>of feathers trailing behind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And one day like any other day, <br>bedroom windows open, <br>he is gone into the sun to<br>make his movements golden, <br>to steel his flight a monument <br>of silver in the sky over Cleveland, <br>over Chicago, the Dakota plains. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we are still reeling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come back.<br>Come back, Icarus.<br>Plead our case to the sun <br>but do not fly too close.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And it is a day like any other day<br>we lose him to a solar flare.<br>All our litigation cannot raise him up again, <br>our curtains closed in protest to the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Warren+Falcon">Warren Falcon</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=535684" data-title="The Icarus Of Housewives, Circa 1981 de Warren Falcon" data-description="From ashtrays he rises when birds in backyards have been fed their seed, a dove amid the starlings. In smoke filled stupor we stare. Icarus climbs our stairs, waves his muscled arms in doorways mimicking the starlings in stocking feet. He feel..."></div> </div> </div>

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