<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373936" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Theodore the Poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a boy, Theodore, you sat for long hours<br>On the shore of the turbid Spoon<br>With deep-set eye staring at the door of the crawfish's burrow,<br>Waiting for him to appear, pushing ahead,<br>First his waving antennae, like straws of hay,<br>And soon his body, colored like soap-stone,<br>Gemmed with eyes of jet.<br>And you wondered in a trance of thought<br>What he knew, what he desired, and why he lived at all.<br>But later your vision watched for men and women<br>Hiding in burrows of fate amid great cities,<br>Looking for the souls of them to come out,<br>So that you could see<br>How they lived, and for what,<br>And why they kept crawling so busily<br>Along the sandy way where water fails<br>As the summer wanes.</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=373936" data-title="Theodore the Poet de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="As a boy, Theodore, you sat for long hours On the shore of the turbid Spoon With deep-set eye staring at the door of the crawfish's burrow, Waiting for him to appear, pushing ahead, First his waving antennae, like straws of hay, And soon his body,..."></div> </div> </div>

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