<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366163" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Are We Better Now Than Then (stand naked in front of a full length mirror)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Better Now Than Then? <br>(stand naked in front of a full length mirror and try not to giggle or gag) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We were then: <br>Small wiry bipeds on dry plains of Serengeti<br>Stringy, tight muscles, strong hands, with long slender fingers<br>Low, beetled brow over dark eyes, seeing distant<br>Long pointed nails, ridged and discolored, tip slender delicate digits</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are now: <br>Tall upright bipeds, on dry, sere, parking lot at Walmart<br>Folds of flaccid fat, fallow, loose, hanging over belts<br>Squeaky-clean, sausage-like, weak, fat fingers<br>Skin stretched tight over pudgy, pillow-like hands</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We were then: <br>Hardy travelers, to distant mist shrouded mountains<br>Feet naked, soles hardened, over plains of rock, sand and gravel<br>Long slender bows, slung over lean shoulders and arrows in hide pouches, <br>Obsidian knives, tucked in scant leather loincloths</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are now: <br>Overweight omnivores, driving air conditioned cars across heat-shimmered blacktop<br>Aching feet shod in spring-soled Nikes, Ipods and ear pods slung cross sallow chests<br>Cellphones esconced in synthetic leather, hung from belts, supporting extra large Dockers<br> Weak, myopic eyes, desperately scanning vast uncharted parking lot<br>In search of the always elusive parking space, nearer the doors</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Whalen">David Whalen</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=366163" data-title="Are We Better Now Than Then (stand naked in front of a full length mirror) de David Whalen" data-description="Better Now Than Then? (stand naked in front of a full length mirror and try not to giggle or gag) We were then: Small wiry bipeds on dry plains of Serengeti Stringy, tight muscles, strong hands, with long slender fingers Low, beetled brow over..."></div> </div> </div>

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