<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353688" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Peripetia, or Flowers for Everyone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How difficult it is to love the stupid<br>in ourselves, not to mention the shortcomings<br>of others. Each time I stumble from<br>a pair of platform shoes, how clumsiness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">surprises! I'm astonished - even worse, <br>appalled - every time a shiny SUV<br>insists on jumping out in front of me.<br>How slow I am to understand the obvious! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm going outside now to gather calla lilies.<br>How strange it might be if I still had the brains<br>of a twenty-something Ph.D.-in-training. <br>The red ones I've been growing. And memory,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">what a laugh, stuck between experience<br>and precognition - middle of a road<br>where no one wants to be. What a load<br>of magic beans that is. I mean, that is, disdain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for the middle of the road, not the precognition.<br>I know I won't remember what I said tomorrow.<br>Now I'm up a tree, climbed it with thorough <br>joie de vivre. Tell me, did you ever get the lilies?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=C.J.+Sage">C.J. Sage</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=353688" data-title="Peripetia, or Flowers for Everyone de C.J. Sage" data-description="How difficult it is to love the stupid in ourselves, not to mention the shortcomings of others. Each time I stumble from a pair of platform shoes, how clumsiness surprises! I'm astonished - even worse, appalled - every time a shiny SUV insists o..."></div> </div> </div>

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