<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=352640" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Unmediated Experience</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She does this thing. Our seventeen-<br>year-old dog. Our mostly deaf dog.<br>Our mostly dead dog, statistically<br>speaking. When I crouch.<br>When I put my mouth to her ear<br>and shout her name. She walks away.<br>Walks toward the nothing of speech.<br>She even trots down the drive, ears up,<br>as if my voice is coming home.<br>It’s like watching a child<br>believe in Christmas, right<br>before you burn the tree down.<br>Every time I do it, I think, this time<br>she’ll turn to me. This time<br>she’ll put voice to face. This time,<br>I’ll be absolved of decay.<br>Which is like being a child<br>who believes in Christmas<br>as the tree burns, as the drapes catch,<br>as Santa lights a smoke<br>with his blowtorch and asks, want one?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bob+Hicok">Bob Hicok</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=352640" data-title="Unmediated Experience de Bob Hicok" data-description="She does this thing. Our seventeen- year-old dog. Our mostly deaf dog. Our mostly dead dog, statistically speaking. When I crouch. When I put my mouth to her ear and shout her name. She walks away. Walks toward the nothing of speech. She even trot..."></div> </div> </div>

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