<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373716" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Alfred Moir</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why was I not devoured by self-contempt,<br>And rotted down by indifference<br>And impotent revolt like Indignation Jones?<br>Why, with all of my errant steps<br>Did I miss the fate of Willard Fluke?<br>And why, though I stood at Burchard's bar,<br>As a sort of decoy for the house to the boys<br>To buy the drinks, did the curse of drink<br>Fall on me like rain that runs off,<br>Leaving the soul of me dry and clean?<br>And why did I never kill a man<br>Like Jack McGuire?<br>But instead I mounted a little in life,<br>And I owe it all to a book I read.<br>But why did I go to Mason City,<br>Where I chanced to see the book in a window,<br>With its garish cover luring my eye?<br>And why did my soul respond to the book,<br>As I read it over and over?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</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=373716" data-title="Alfred Moir de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="Why was I not devoured by self-contempt, And rotted down by indifference And impotent revolt like Indignation Jones? Why, with all of my errant steps Did I miss the fate of Willard Fluke? And why, though I stood at Burchard's bar, As a sort of dec..."></div> </div> </div>

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