<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366386" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Me... Eccentricity... and Poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A pair of newly purchased, round lens glasses<br>That now perch steadfast and proud<br>upon my brow</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Endow me the rather amusing mien…<br>of a startled, outraged and somewhat<br>surprised barn owl</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A matted mane of shaggy grey hair<br>And a tiny flagrant bald spot<br>Poised defiantly there</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Demanded that my eccentric appearance<br>Should be given <br>an upward rachet</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So to be more in keeping<br>With Burns, Bierce and<br>“Bob Cratchett”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For it’s a rigid requirement<br>For old poets <br>To seem</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like a character, <br>stepped out of…<br>“A mid-summers night dream”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I look in my mirror<br>Perch my round lenses<br>To the tip of my nose</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Peer solemnly down that <br>Aquiline feature… and strive to<br>Strike… a perfect poetic pose</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’m perfectly eccentric now! ! What with my shaggy mane…<br>my round lensed glasses, my bushy eyebrows…<br>And my baggy clothes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now, being perfectly equipped, I must buckle down… <br>with an extremely proper, literary, dusty frown<br>And write some very eccentric prose</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=366386" data-title="Me... Eccentricity... and Poetry de David Whalen" data-description="A pair of newly purchased, round lens glasses That now perch steadfast and proud upon my brow Endow me the rather amusing mien… of a startled, outraged and somewhat surprised barn owl A matted mane of shaggy grey hair And a tiny flagrant bald ..."></div> </div> </div>

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