<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368071" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Codicil</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Schizophrenic, wrenched by two styles,<br>one a hack's hired prose, I earn<br>me exile. I trudge this sickle, moonlit beach for miles,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">tan, burn<br>to slough off<br>this live of ocean that's self-love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To change your language you must change your life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I cannot right old wrongs.<br>Waves tire of horizon and return.<br>Gulls screech with rusty tongues</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Above the beached, rotting pirogues,<br>they were a venomous beaked cloud at Charlotteville.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One I thought love of country was enough,<br>now, even if I chose, there is no room at the trough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watch the best minds rot like dogs<br>for scraps of flavour.<br>I am nearing middle<br>age, burnt skin<br>peels from my hand like paper, onion-thin,<br>like Peer Gynt's riddle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At heart there is nothing, not the dread<br>of death. I know to many dead.<br>They're all familiar, all in character,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">even how they died. On fire,<br>the flesh no longer fears that furnace mouth<br>of earth,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that kiln or ashpit of the sun,<br>nor this clouding, unclouding sickle moon<br>withering this beach again like a blank page.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All its indifference is a different rage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Derek+Walcott">Derek Walcott</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=368071" data-title="Codicil de Derek Walcott" data-description="Schizophrenic, wrenched by two styles, one a hack's hired prose, I earn me exile. I trudge this sickle, moonlit beach for miles, tan, burn to slough off this live of ocean that's self-love. To change your language you must change your life. I c..."></div> </div> </div>

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