<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=124992" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poetry Reading</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be a boxer, or not to be there<br>at all. O Muse, where are our teeming crowds?<br>Twelve people in the room, eight seats to spare<br>it's time to start this cultural affair.<br>Half came inside because it started raining,<br>the rest are relatives. O Muse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The women here would love to rant and rave,<br>but that's for boxing. Here they must behave.<br>Dante's Infemo is ringside nowadays.<br>Likewise his Paradise. O Muse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, not to be a boxer but a poet,<br>one sentenced to hard shelleying for life,<br>for lack of muscles forced to show the world<br>the sonnet that may make the high-school reading lists<br>with luck. O Muse,<br>O bobtailed angel, Pegasus.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the first row, a sweet old man's soft snore:<br>he dreams his wife's alive again. What's more,<br>she's making him that tart she used to bake.<br>Aflame, but carefully-don't burn his cake!<br>we start to read. O Muse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wislawa+Szymborska">Wislawa Szymborska</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=124992" data-title="Poetry Reading de Wislawa Szymborska" data-description="To be a boxer, or not to be there/at all. O Muse, where are our teeming crowds?/Twelve people in the room, eight seats to spare/it's time to start this cultural affair./Half came inside because it started raining,/the rest are relatives. O Muse./T..."></div> </div> </div>

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