<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354601" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">my grandmother had a serious gas<br>problem.<br>we only saw her on Sunday.<br>she'd sit down to dinner<br>and she'd have gas.<br>she was very heavy,<br>80 years old.<br>wore this large glass brooch,<br>that's what you noticed most<br>in addition to the gas.<br>she'd let it go just as food was being served.<br>she'd let it go in bursts<br>spaced about a minute apart.<br>she'd let it go<br>4 or 5 times<br>as we reached for the potatoes<br>poured the gravy<br>cut into the meat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">nobody ever said anything,<br>especially me.<br>I was 6 years old.<br>only my grandmother spoke.<br>after 4 or 5 blasts<br>she would say in an offhand way,<br>'I'll bury you all!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I didn't much like that:<br>first farting<br>then saying that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it happened every Sunday.<br>she was my father's mother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">every Sunday it was death and gas<br>and mashed potatoes and gravy<br>and that big glass brooch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">those Sunday dinners would<br>always end with apple pie and<br>ice cream<br>and a big argument<br>about something or other,<br>my grandmother finally running out the door<br>and taking the red train back to<br>Pasadena<br>the place stinking for an hour<br>and my father walking about<br>fanning a newspaper in the air and<br>saying, 'it's all that damned sauerkraut<br>she eats!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Bukowski">Charles Bukowski</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=354601" data-title="Gas de Charles Bukowski" data-description="my grandmother had a serious gas problem. we only saw her on Sunday. she'd sit down to dinner and she'd have gas. she was very heavy, 80 years old. wore this large glass brooch, that's what you noticed most in addition to the gas. she'd let it go ..."></div> </div> </div>

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