<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384020" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Filling Station</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, but it is dirty!<br>--this little filling station,<br>oil-soaked, oil-permeated<br>to a disturbing, over-all<br>black translucency.<br>Be careful with that match!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Father wears a dirty,<br>oil-soaked monkey suit<br>that cuts him under the arms,<br>and several quick and saucy<br>and greasy sons assist him<br>(it's a family filling station),<br>all quite thoroughly dirty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do they live in the station?<br>It has a cement porch<br>behind the pumps, and on it<br>a set of crushed and grease-<br>impregnated wickerwork;<br>on the wicker sofa<br>a dirty dog, quite comfy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some comic books provide<br>the only note of color--<br>of certain color. They lie<br>upon a big dim doily<br>draping a taboret<br>(part of the set), beside<br>a big hirsute begonia.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why the extraneous plant?<br>Why the taboret?<br>Why, oh why, the doily?<br>(Embroidered in daisy stitch<br>with marguerites, I think,<br>and heavy with gray crochet.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Somebody embroidered the doily.<br>Somebody waters the plant,<br>or oils it, maybe. Somebody<br>arranges the rows of cans<br>so that they softly say:<br>ESSO--SO--SO--SO</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to high-strung automobiles.<br>Somebody loves us all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Bishop">Elizabeth Bishop</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=384020" data-title="Filling Station de Elizabeth Bishop" data-description="Oh, but it is dirty! --this little filling station, oil-soaked, oil-permeated to a disturbing, over-all black translucency. Be careful with that match! Father wears a dirty, oil-soaked monkey suit that cuts him under the arms, and several quick a..."></div> </div> </div>

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