<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398660" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Late August</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There’s a chilly wind blowing this morning, <br>the black-collard barbet <br>flies into my study’s window<br>as if it can go right through it, <br>the big brown Labrador jumps<br>with locking jaws<br>trying to snatch it from the air, <br>there’s menace creeping into the morning, <br>menace coming from somewhere, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">both dogs jump and try<br>to snap the postman’s hand in two, <br>while he is putting letters<br>in the mailbox, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">last night the police<br>made a ruckus at two in the morning, <br>at the neighbours across the street, <br>hooted the neighbourhood awake<br>and as a mistake<br>was at the wrong address</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and when I got back to bed, <br>I thought that I had heard something<br>and in t-shirt and shorts<br>went to investigate<br>with a shotgun in my hands<br>but it was only the wind<br>rustling through the trees, <br>blowing as it did <br>from the beginning of time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This morning felt like Monday, <br>as if going to work<br>after a weekend<br>brought the responsibilities of living<br>back to me again.</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=398660" data-title="Late August de Gert Strydom" data-description="There’s a chilly wind blowing this morning, the black-collard barbet flies into my study’s window as if it can go right through it, the big brown Labrador jumps with locking jaws trying to snatch it from the air, there’s menace creeping ..."></div> </div> </div>

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