<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410469" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Vacuum</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The house is so quiet now <br>The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet, <br>Its bag limp as a stopped lung, its mouth <br>Grinning into the floor, maybe at my <br>Slovenly life, my dog-dead youth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I’ve lived this way long enough, <br>But when my old woman died her soul <br>Went into that vacuum cleaner, and I can’t bear <br>To see the bag swell like a belly, eating the dust <br>And the woolen mice, and begin to howl </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Because there is old filth everywhere <br>She used to crawl, in the corner and under the stair. <br>I know now how life is cheap as dirt, <br>And still the hungry, angry heart <br>Hangs on and howls, biting at air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Howard+Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</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=410469" data-title="The Vacuum de Howard Nemerov" data-description="The house is so quiet now The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet, Its bag limp as a stopped lung, its mouth Grinning into the floor, maybe at my Slovenly life, my dog-dead youth. I’ve lived this way long enough, But when my old wo..."></div> </div> </div>

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