<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368817" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pantoum Of The Great Depression</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our lives avoided tragedy<br>Simply by going on and on,<br>Without end and with little apparent meaning.<br>Oh, there were storms and small catastrophes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Simply by going on and on<br>We managed. No need for the heroic.<br>Oh, there were storms and small catastrophes.<br>I don't remember all the particulars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We managed. No need for the heroic.<br>There were the usual celebrations, the usual sorrows.<br>I don't remember all the particulars.<br>Across the fence, the neighbors were our chorus.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were the usual celebrations, the usual sorrows<br>Thank god no one said anything in verse.<br>The neighbors were our only chorus,<br>And if we suffered we kept quiet about it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At no time did anyone say anything in verse.<br>It was the ordinary pities and fears consumed us,<br>And if we suffered we kept quiet about it.<br>No audience would ever know our story.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was the ordinary pities and fears consumed us.<br>We gathered on porches; the moon rose; we were poor.<br>What audience would ever know our story?<br>Beyond our windows shone the actual world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We gathered on porches; the moon rose; we were poor.<br>And time went by, drawn by slow horses.<br>Somewhere beyond our windows shone the actual world.<br>The Great Depression had entered our souls like fog.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And time went by, drawn by slow horses.<br>We did not ourselves know what the end was.<br>The Great Depression had entered our souls like fog.<br>We had our flaws, perhaps a few private virtues.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we did not ourselves know what the end was.<br>People like us simply go on.<br>We had our flaws, perhaps a few private virtues,<br>But it is by blind chance only that we escape tragedy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there is no plot in that; it is devoid of poetry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Anonymous submission.</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=368817" data-title="Pantoum Of The Great Depression de Donald Justice" data-description="Our lives avoided tragedy Simply by going on and on, Without end and with little apparent meaning. Oh, there were storms and small catastrophes. Simply by going on and on We managed. No need for the heroic. Oh, there were storms and small catastr..."></div> </div> </div>

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