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When we become truly ourselves we just become a swinging door	A
Suzuki	B
	-
Sick of the self	C
the self seducing self	C
with its games its fears	D
its misty memories and its prix fixe menu	E
of seductions so familiar	F
even to the seducer	F
that he grows sick	G
of looking at himself	C
in the mirrored ceiling	H
before he takes the plunge into this new	E
distraction from the self	C
which in fact leads back	I
to self	C
	-
Self the prison	J
Love the answer and the door	A
And yet the self should also be a door	A
swinging letting loves both in and out	K
for change	L
is the world's only fixity and fixity	K
her foremost lie	M
	-
How to trust love	N
which has so often	J
betrayed the betrayer	A
seduced the seducer	A
and then turned out	K
to be not even love	N
We are jaded	K
divorced from our selves	O
without ever having found	K
ourselves and yet we	B
long for wholeness	P
if not fixity	K
for harmony	B
if not music of the spheres	D
	-
If life is a flood	K
and there is no ark	Q
then where do the animals float	K
two by two	E
	-
I refuse to believe	R
that the flesh falls	S
from their bones	T
without ever understanding	H
ever coming	H
and I refuse to believe	R
that we must leave	R
this life entirely alone	U
	-
Much harumphing	H
across the ocean	J
my brother poet coughs	V
clears his throat	K
he smokes too much	W
and gazes into the murky	H
depths of his word processor	A
as if it were a crystal ball	X
I do not know	Y
all that hides	Z
in his heart of darkness	A2
but I know I love	N
the thoughts	B2
that cloud the surface	A2
of his crystal ball	X
	-
He longs to leap	C2
headlong into his future	A
and cannot	K
This chapter's finished	K
his self peels back	H
a skin	D2
Snakes hiss	P
shedding their scales	E2
The goddess smiles	F2
She sends her missives	F2
only to the brave	G2

Erica Jong

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