<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Portrait Of An Old Woman On The College Tavern Wall</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh down at the tavern<br>the children are singing<br>around their round table<br>and around me still.<br>Did you hear what it said?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I only said<br>how there is a pewter urn<br>pinned to the tavern wall,<br>as old as old is able<br>to be and be there still.<br>I said, the poets are tere<br>I hear them singing and lying<br>around their round table<br>and around me still.<br>Across the room is a wreath<br>made of a corpse's hair,<br>framed in glass on the wall,<br>as old as old is able<br>to be and be remembered still.<br>Did you hear what it said?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I only said<br>how I want to be there and I<br>would sing my songs with the liars<br>and my lies with all the singers.<br>And I would, and I would but<br>it's my hair in the hair wreath,<br>my cup pinned to the tavern wall,<br>my dusty face they sing beneath.<br>Poets are sitting in my kitchen.<br>Why do these poets lie?<br>Why do children get children and<br>Did you hear what it said?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I only said<br>how I want to be there,<br>Oh, down at the tavern<br>where the prophets are singing<br>around their round table<br>until they are still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Sexton">Anne Sexton</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=345425" data-title="Portrait Of An Old Woman On The College Tavern Wall de Anne Sexton" data-description="Oh down at the tavern the children are singing around their round table and around me still. Did you hear what it said? I only said how there is a pewter urn pinned to the tavern wall, as old as old is able to be and be there still. I said, the p..."></div> </div> </div>

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