<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398998" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On a close-up of Anthony Delius, on his Questions to the Universe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So tell me Anthony you start<br>your wailing against the gods / God<br>with the sketch of a man gone mad</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who does not know his own integrity<br>nor if he is in reality either good or bad<br>and maybe a little bit of both</div><div style="margin:10px 0">does not know where he stands in life<br>if he’s cruel to his kids or letting them run amok<br>if sex with his wife wedded or not</div><div style="margin:10px 0">satisfies her or is she only acting it out<br>and is he a wimp or what, who wears a pink shirt<br>and hides behind her skirt? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could he find any help from a doctor, <br>minister or priest to mend<br>or is he in the end only a waste to the human race? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Completely mixed up the anti-hero wants to lurk <br>in the basement as if looking for a replacement<br>or to find something in his heart or turn to art</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and yet he sees a roving universal eye<br>looking down from the blue sky<br>somewhat like that of a colonel or a cat </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(most probably a rat (if he’s in the basement) <br>and I wonder to what army did this nut belong?) <br>and what answer does he anyway get but none<br>and he decides that it’s up to himself and no one else.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: Questions to the Universe by Anthony Delius. My poem was written in reaction to Anthony Delius’s poem: On a Close-up of Dirk Opperman, on the Jacket of his Komas.]</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=398998" data-title="On a close-up of Anthony Delius, on his Questions to the Universe de Gert Strydom" data-description="So tell me Anthony you start your wailing against the gods / God with the sketch of a man gone mad who does not know his own integrity nor if he is in reality either good or bad and maybe a little bit of both does not know where he stands in lif..."></div> </div> </div>

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