<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357868" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Exception</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I dance upon the wash-house roof,<br>And fill my hair with straws,<br>And from my fellows keep aloof.<br>I'll tell you why. because<br>The glare in every eye I see,<br>I hear their talk inane;<br>For, sure as two and two are three,<br>All, all are mad as mad can be,<br>And I alone am sane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jones says, if we grow too much bread<br>The people may not eat;<br>And Smith declares in nervous dread,<br>More boots mean more bare feet.<br>Black says the price of gold must jump<br>Ere men was rich again.<br>White says the price of gold must slump;<br>For all the world is off its chump,<br>And I alone am sane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I laugh and stand upon my head<br>Upon the wash-house roof.<br>If such an act men did not dread,<br>I'm sure and certain proof<br>They'd see me right side up. Why not?<br>The thing's as plain as plain.<br>But they look grave and gabble rot,<br>For all the world is off its dot,<br>And I alone am sane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am the great economist;<br>I stick straws in my locks;<br>For I've the truth that all have missed<br>In this world's paradox.<br>If all mankind would but agree<br>(Here lies our only hope)<br>That two and two must equal three,<br>They'd all grow sane again, like me;<br>And I'd stop chewing soap.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</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=357868" data-title="The Exception de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="I dance upon the wash-house roof, And fill my hair with straws, And from my fellows keep aloof. I'll tell you why. because The glare in every eye I see, I hear their talk inane; For, sure as two and two are three, All, all are mad as mad can be, A..."></div> </div> </div>

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