<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399610" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The lemon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pick a ripe yellow lemon from the tree, <br>the children, even the dog imitates me<br>and when I warn them to eat it up<br>the two boys draw up their lips<br>from its sour taste, the brown Labrador complies, <br>eating right through the skin, <br>but will never again eat such a thing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and my picking of it is no sacrament, <br>to offer to the gods<br>not even a thieving thing<br>as that tree with green leaves and thorns<br>belongs to me<br>and I am not doing it<br>to apply as medicine with honey in a drink<br>but lemon juice in my mother’s pudding treat<br>is an essential thing <br>in the mix of biscuits, condense milk and custard.</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=399610" data-title="The lemon de Gert Strydom" data-description="I pick a ripe yellow lemon from the tree, the children, even the dog imitates me and when I warn them to eat it up the two boys draw up their lips from its sour taste, the brown Labrador complies, eating right through the skin, but will never a..."></div> </div> </div>

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