Fata cu Șosete de Diamant
[...]fata cu şosete de diamant.
ea are părul de diamant
şi faţa de diamant
şi fustă verde de brocart.
în pulpa de sticlă a acestei fetiţe
se vede săpat un mecanism cu rotiţe
şi un piston de argint.
rotiţele se rotesc
pistonul pompează
şi adolescenta înaintează
târându-şi părul de diamant pe Calea Moşilor.[...]
(Mircea Cărtărescu)
What Do Women Want?
I want a red dress.
I want it flimsy and cheap,
I want it too tight, I want to wear it
until someone tears it off me.
I want it sleeveless and backless,
this dress, so no one has to guess
what's underneath. I want to walk down
the street past Thrifty's and the hardware store
with all those keys glittering in the window,
past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old
donuts in their café, past the Guerra brothers
slinging pigs from the truck and onto the dolly,
hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders.
I want to walk like I'm the only
woman on earth and I can have my pick.
I want that red dress bad.
I want it to confirm
your worst fears about me,
to show you how little I care about you
or anything except what
I want. When I find it, I'll pull that garment
from its hanger like I'm choosing a body
to carry me into this world, through
the birth-cries and the love-cries too,
and I'll wear it like bones, like skin,
it'll be the goddamned
dress they bury me in.(Kim Addonizio) 
Exit Through Mirror
Without hours, how cheer? Old devotions
now point to
sorrow: cap’s cracked and leaking.
Door doesn’t open: exit through mirror.
Oh
the plumbing
fails.
now point to
sorrow: cap’s cracked and leaking.
Door doesn’t open: exit through mirror.
Oh
the plumbing
fails.
(Julie Carr)
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