<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368804" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Extraits</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Man Closing Up,' from Night Light' (1967), </div><div style="margin:10px 0">would make his bed,<br>If he could sleep on it.<br>He would make his bed with white sheets<br>And disappear into the white,<br>Like a man diving,<br>If he could be certain<br>That the light<br>Would not keep him awake,<br>The light that reaches<br>To the bottom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">dour vision of life's journey: from 'Sestina on Six Words by Weldon Kees'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is no way to ease the burden.<br>The voyage leads on from harm to harm,<br>A land of others and of silence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The Miami of Other Days' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The winter streets an orchestra of horns<br>And gods slept under tabernacle tents<br>That sprang up overnight on circus grounds<br>Like giant toadstools yearning for respectability.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a portrait of himself at age seven he writes :</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sometimes he would squat among the foul weeds of the vacant lot,<br>Waiting for dusk and someone dear to come<br>And whip him down the street, but gently, home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Poem to Be Read at 3 A.M.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Excepting the diner<br>On the outskirts<br>The town of Ladora<br>At 3 A.M.<br>Was dark but<br>For my headlights<br>And up in<br>One second story room<br>A single light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A more recent poem on the Great Depression shows his cynical side: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Agriculture embraced Industry,<br>Mammothly, on public walls.<br>Meanwhile we camped out underneath<br>Great smiles on billboards fading.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special,<br>But as of something altogether common ?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Donald+Justice">Donald Justice</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=368804" data-title="Extraits de Donald Justice" data-description="The Man Closing Up,' from Night Light' (1967), would make his bed, If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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