<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390801" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>As You Leave Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shiny record albums scattered over<br>the living room floor, reflecting light<br>from the lamp, sharp reflections that hurt<br>my eyes as I watch you, squatting among the platters, <br>the beer foam making mustaches on your lips.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, too,<br>the shadows on your cheeks from your long lashes<br>fascinate me--almost as much as the dimples<br>in your cheeks, your arms and your legs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You <br>hum along with Mathis--how you love Mathis!<br>with his burnished hair and quicksilver voice that dances<br>among the stars and whirls through canyons<br>like windblown snow, sometimes I think that Mathis<br>could take you from me if you could be complete<br>without me. I glance at my watch. It is now time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You rise,<br>silently, and to the bedroom and the paint;<br>on the lips red, on the eyes black,<br>and I lean in the doorway and smoke, and see you<br>grow old before my eyes, and smoke, why do you<br>chatter while you dress? and smile when you grab<br>your large leather purse? don't you know that when you leave me <br>I walk to the window and watch you? and light<br>a reefer as I watch you? and I die as I watch you<br>disappear in the dark streets<br>to whistle and smile at the johns</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Submitted by Hen</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Etheridge+Knight">Etheridge Knight</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=390801" data-title="As You Leave Me de Etheridge Knight" data-description="Shiny record albums scattered over the living room floor, reflecting light from the lamp, sharp reflections that hurt my eyes as I watch you, squatting among the platters, the beer foam making mustaches on your lips. And, too, the shadows on you..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black