<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=337253" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Five Charms in Praise of Bewilderment</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1.<br>At first when you leave town,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the dog and I maintain dignified silence.<br>After no more than two hours<br>I’m talking to her, after three<br>she’s telling me the story of her life.<br>I nod my head at every word,<br>encouraging her<br>to take all the time she needs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2.<br>I have the vice</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of courting poems.<br>Pathetic, I know.<br>I also like to watch Oprah<br>if no one is around to notice.<br>That’s right,<br>I court poems, I watch Oprah,<br>I even let out wordless sighs late at night,<br>and call them<br>my spring fields ploughed, my ready earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3.<br>Sitting quietly at dusk, I’ll admit</div><div style="margin:10px 0">my life goes like this:<br>dark branches<br>scratching the still darker window.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">4.<br>“How are you?”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ask a woman at work.<br>“I have no idea,”<br>she replies,<br>sounding pleased with herself<br>at the heartfeltness<br>of her own bewilderment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">5.<br>We don’t know,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">can’t possibly know,<br>never have known,<br>never will know.<br>We just don’t know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jim+Moore">Jim Moore</a> from <i>Invisible Strings</i><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=337253" data-title="Five Charms in Praise of Bewilderment de Jim Moore" data-description="1./At first when you leave town,/the dog and I maintain dignified silence./After no more than two hours/I’m talking to her, after three/she’s telling me the story of her life./I nod my head at every word,/encouraging her/to take all the time s..."></div> </div> </div>

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