<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415044" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mistake</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is always the harrowing by mortality,<br>the strafing by age, he thinks. Always defeats.<br>Sorrows come like epidemics. But we are alive<br>in the difficult way adults want to be alive.<br>It is worth having the heart broken,<br>a blessing to hurt for eighteen years<br>because a woman is dead. He thinks of long<br>before that, the summer he was with Gianna<br>and her sister in Apulia. Having outwitted<br>the General, their father, and driven south<br>to the estate of the Contessa. Like an opera.<br>The fiefdom stretching away to the horizon.<br>Houses of the peasants burrowed into the walls<br>of the compound. A butler with white gloves<br>serving chicken in aspic. The pretty maid<br>in her uniform bringing his breakfast each<br>morning on a silver tray: toast both light<br>and dark, hot chocolate and tea both. A world<br>like Tosca. A feudal world crushed under<br>the weight of passion without feeling.<br>Gianna’s virgin body helplessly in love.<br>The young man wild with romance and appetite.<br>Wondering whether he would ruin her by mistake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jack+Gilbert">Jack Gilbert</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=415044" data-title="The Mistake de Jack Gilbert" data-description="There is always the harrowing by mortality, the strafing by age, he thinks. Always defeats. Sorrows come like epidemics. But we are alive in the difficult way adults want to be alive. It is worth having the heart broken, a blessing to hurt for eig..."></div> </div> </div>

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