<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368826" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Villanelle at Sundown</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Turn your head. Look. The light is turning yellow. <br>The river seems enriched thereby, not to say deepened. <br>Why this is, I'll never be able to tell you. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or are Americans half in love with failure? <br>One used to say so, reading Fitzgerald, as it happened. <br>(That Viking Portable, all water spotted and yellow-- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">remember?) Or does mere distance lend a value <br>to things? --false, it may be, but the view is hardly cheapened. <br>Why this is, I'll never be able to tell you. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The smoke, those tiny cars, the whole urban millieu-- <br>One can like anything diminishment has sharpened. <br>Our painter friend, Lang, might show the whole thing yellow </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and not be much off. It's nuance that counts, not color-- <br>As in some late James novel, saved up for the long weekend <br>and vivid with all the Master simply won't tell you. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How frail our generation has got, how sallow <br>and pinched with just surviving! We all go off the deep end <br>finally, gold beaten thinly out to yellow. <br>And why this is, I'll never be able to tell you.</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=368826" data-title="Villanelle at Sundown de Donald Justice" data-description="Turn your head. Look. The light is turning yellow. The river seems enriched thereby, not to say deepened. Why this is, I'll never be able to tell you. Or are Americans half in love with failure? One used to say so, reading Fitzgerald, as it h..."></div> </div> </div>

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