<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351246" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Misunderstanding</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm charmed yet chagrined by this misunderstanding-- <br>As when, after a riot, my city's smashed-in stores appear all<br>Boarded up, billboarded over, with ads for wind-insurance. <br>Similarly, swimmingly, I miss the point. You too?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And my misunderstanding doesn't stop there, it grows--soon<br>I can't see why that sudden influx of fugitives,<br>All the world's escapees, rubbing themselves lasciviously against the<br>Berlin Wall.<br>They stick like placards to it. Like napalm. Like ads for--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And me, I haven't even bought my biodegradable genitalia yet! <br>No. I was born slow, but picking up speed I run through <br>Our burnt-out streets, screaming, refusing to buy a house. <br>Finally, exasperated, the misunderstanding overtakes me, snatches<br>up</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Handcuffs. So now here I am, found with all you others<br>Impatiently craning, in this queue that rumors out of sight up ahead<br>somewhere,<br>Clutching our cash eager to purchase whatever it is, nervous<br>As if bombs were about to practice land-reform upon our bodies,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Redistribution of eyes, toes, arms, here we stand. Then, some new<br>Age starts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bill+Knott">Bill Knott</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=351246" data-title="The Misunderstanding de Bill Knott" data-description="I'm charmed yet chagrined by this misunderstanding-- As when, after a riot, my city's smashed-in stores appear all Boarded up, billboarded over, with ads for wind-insurance. Similarly, swimmingly, I miss the point. You too? And my misunderstand..."></div> </div> </div>

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