<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397651" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Auntie’s curse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She said to me, now in her old age<br>to stay away from the dogs and cats, <br>as if they were spiders, snakes and bats</div><div style="margin:10px 0">being scared <br>that I would catch <br>something from them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">like lice or ticks or fleas<br>or maybe some hidden disease<br>and although I had used frontline on them, <br>had dusted them with karbadust, <br>had sprayed shoo-fly on their heads and necks</div><div style="margin:10px 0">she wished that I would catch lice from them, <br>or the illness which they were carrying<br>like a member of the flat earth society, <br>still believing in vain<br>as if cats and dogs infected with <br>the one or other pest<br>were going to rain down<br>out of the sky<br>and infect every one</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then she bought some expensive shampoo, <br>bathed, washed her head<br>five times a day<br>to kill the pests<br>which she believed <br>was now crawling over her<br>and was very angry at me<br>for not comprehending<br>life exactly as she did.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</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=397651" data-title="Auntie’s curse de Gert Strydom" data-description="She said to me, now in her old age to stay away from the dogs and cats, as if they were spiders, snakes and bats being scared that I would catch something from them like lice or ticks or fleas or maybe some hidden disease and although I had u..."></div> </div> </div>

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