<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392276" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Help Me if you Can (Beatles, Grand Central, Bombay Mix)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Can I help anyone? '<br>Voice thin and high, Asian-inflected<br>Female, hints of softness and suggestion.<br>'Can I....? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hid in shelves of poetry, journals<br>birds of Scotland, lesbian, gendered, jazz, New England<br>school house quarterlies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unaffected where it matters, I don't look to her<br>Semi-resigned, someone will surely take her up<br>on it. Oh, she can't be serious</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pass on through<br>the Cheez-its and the Cheerios<br>the weeklies and the daily rags<br>dripping inky off the shelves</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And step out, on my perfect guard<br>into the criss-cross hordes, how they<br>avoid collision, by <br>miraculous geometry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">save for the woman, hurrying<br>who calls me 'Jesus Christ'<br>and not in unaccusatory terms! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Moving by stealth once more<br>intact in my intent to glimpse her face<br>but she's behind me now</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then some old Bowie song<br>passes its fingertips over my brow<br>and presses on the ache behind my eyes<br>'Why didn't I say, why didn't I say...'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The clutter and the trivia, ephemera of the store<br>and of my thoughts, the junkyard of my soul<br>the worn-out clothes, the gems, the Bombay mix</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And she will still repeat, unvarying, note-true<br>The chorus of her storefront studio<br>'Can I help anyone...? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Anyone? you mean? <br>Oh yes, you may... <br>please help me if you can....<br>I'm sure there'll be some way to help you too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</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=392276" data-title="Help Me if you Can (Beatles, Grand Central, Bombay Mix) de Frank Bana" data-description="'Can I help anyone? ' Voice thin and high, Asian-inflected Female, hints of softness and suggestion. 'Can I....? ' Hid in shelves of poetry, journals birds of Scotland, lesbian, gendered, jazz, New England school house quarterlies Unaffected whe..."></div> </div> </div>

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