Erica Jong - You Whom I Hoped to Reach by Writing lyrics

You whom I hoped to reach by writing, you beyond the multicolored tangle of telephone wires, you with your white paper soul trampled in transit, you with kaleidoscope stamps & black cancellations, you who put your finger on my heart as I slept, you whom I jostle in elevators, you whom I stare at in subways, you shopping for love in department stores. . . I write to you & someone else answers: the man who hates his wife & wants to meet me, the girl who mistakes me for mother. . . My strange vocation is to be paid for my nightmares. I write to you, my love, & someone else always answers.