<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=124997" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The End and the Beginning</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">After every war<br>someone has to clean up.<br>Things won’t<br>straighten themselves up, after all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Someone has to push the rubble<br>to the side of the road,<br>so the corpse-filled wagons<br>can pass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Someone has to get mired<br>in scum and ashes,<br>sofa springs,<br>splintered glass,<br>and bloody rags.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Someone has to drag in a girder<br>to prop up a wall.<br>Someone has to glaze a window,<br>rehang a door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Photogenic it’s not,<br>and takes years.<br>All the cameras have left<br>for another war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We’ll need the bridges back,<br>and new railway stations.<br>Sleeves will go ragged<br>from rolling them up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Someone, broom in hand,<br>still recalls the way it was.<br>Someone else listens<br>and nods with unsevered head.<br>But already there are those nearby<br>starting to mill about<br>who will find it dull.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From out of the bushes<br>sometimes someone still unearths<br>rusted-out arguments<br>and carries them to the garbage pile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those who knew<br>what was going on here<br>must make way for<br>those who know little.<br>And less than little.<br>And finally as little as nothing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the grass that has overgrown<br>causes and effects,<br>someone must be stretched out<br>blade of grass in his mouth<br>gazing at the clouds.</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=124997" data-title="The End and the Beginning de Wislawa Szymborska" data-description="After every war/someone has to clean up./Things won’t/straighten themselves up, after all./Someone has to push the rubble/to the side of the road,/so the corpse-filled wagons/can pass./Someone has to get mired/in scum and ashes,/sofa springs,/sp..."></div> </div> </div>

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