<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368669" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Caseworker Takes Notes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was there the day<br>there trickled down the wall<br>of an old man's room one roach</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that stopped across<br>a canyon in the plaster till<br>the old man's elevated slipper fell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The roach absorbed the blow<br>and as though perforated for that purpose<br>dissolved into an archipelago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The old man looked at me<br>and patiently explained, 'Despite my <br>constant smacking of its brethren</div><div style="margin:10px 0">one roach each day will trickle down that wall<br>and pause and pose as if to say, <br>'Go ahead and smack me, that's okay.' '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To take advantage of the archipelago at hand<br>the old man pointed toward the last palpitating island<br>and once again explained, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Each roach I smack, you see, <br>offers me that same good-bye-<br>one last flicker of antennae.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Donal+Mahoney">Donal Mahoney</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=368669" data-title="Caseworker Takes Notes de Donal Mahoney" data-description="I was there the day there trickled down the wall of an old man's room one roach that stopped across a canyon in the plaster till the old man's elevated slipper fell. The roach absorbed the blow and as though perforated for that purpose dissolved..."></div> </div> </div>

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