<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353539" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Unclean</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am<br>like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am<br>as a sparrow alone upon the housetop.<br>Psalm 102</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pelican in scripture is unclean. It pukes dead fish<br>onto the hatchlings, and it roosts alone, like Satan<br>on the Tree of Life. Nobody told me. I liked pelicans.<br>I liked owls, too. I used to lie awake and listen,<br>wanting to become an owl, to fly, to see through darkness,<br>turn my head, and look straight back behind me. I was<br>happy, as kids go, but I did not belong in human form.<br>Sparrows peck grain from fresh dung. In this world rich<br>means filthy. Leopardi, in his high Romantic musings<br>on the sparrow, does not say the poet is a shitbird, just<br>that, singing by himself, he acts like one, and wishes<br>he could feel more like one, unashamed to do so. Here,<br>the preacher (burning in his bones with fever, puking<br>half-digested fish, and hooting, sleepless in the ruins<br>like the baleful dead) cries: O Lord, take me not away.</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> <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=353539" data-title="Unclean de Brooks Haxton" data-description="I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the housetop. Psalm 102 The pelican in scripture is unclean. It pukes dead fish onto the hatchlings, and it roosts alone, like Satan on..."></div> </div> </div>

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