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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353535" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Salesmanship, With Half A Dram Of Tears</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gripping the lectern, rocking it, searching<br>the faces for the souls, for signs of heartfelt<br>mindfulness at work, I thought, as I recited<br>words I wrote in tears: instead of tears,<br>if I had understood my father's business,<br>I could be selling men's clothes. I could be<br>kneeling, complimenting someone at the bay<br>of mirrors, mumblingly, with pinpoints pressed<br>between my lips. That was the life I held<br>in scorn while young, because I thought to live<br>without distraction, using words. Yet, looking<br>now into the room of strangers' eyes, I wanted<br>them to feel what I said touch, as palpably<br>as when a men in double worsted felt<br>the cuff drop to his wrist. There was a rush<br>in the applause of gratitude and mercy:<br>they could go. A teenager, embarrassed<br>for himself and me, lefthandedly<br>squeezed my fingers, and said thanks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Anonymous submission.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Brooks+Haxton">Brooks Haxton</a><div class=q>
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I could be selling men's c..."></div>
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