<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415240" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Poem About George Doty in the Death House</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lured by the wall, and drawn<br>To stare below the roof,<br>Where pigeons nest aloof<br>From prowling cats and men,<br>I count the sash and bar<br>Secured to granite stone,<br>And note the daylight gone,<br>Supper and silence near.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Close to the wall inside,<br>Immured, empty of love,<br>A man I have wondered of<br>Lies patient, vacant-eye.<br>A month and a day ago<br>He stopped his car and found<br>A girl on the darkening ground,<br>And killed her in the snow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beside his cell, I am told,<br>Hardy perennial bums<br>Complain till twilight comes<br>For hunger and for cold.<br>They hardly know of a day<br>That saw their hunger pass.<br>Bred to the dark, their flesh<br>Peacefully withers away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man who sits alone,<br>He is the one for wonder,<br>Who sways his fingers under<br>The cleanly shaven chin,<br>Who sees, in the shaving mirror<br>Pinned to the barren wall,<br>The uprooted ghost of all:<br>The simple, easy terror.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Caught between sky and earth,<br>Poor stupid animal,<br>Stripped naked to the wall,<br>He saw the blundered birth<br>Of daemons beyond sound.<br>Sick of the dark, he rose<br>For love, and now he goes<br>Back to the broken ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, as he grips the chain<br>And holds the wall, to bear<br>What no man ever bore,<br>He hears the bums complain;<br>But I mourn no soul but his,<br>Not even the bums who die,<br>Nor the homely girl whose cry<br>Crumbled his pleading kiss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Arlington+Wright">James Arlington Wright</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=415240" data-title="A Poem About George Doty in the Death House de James Arlington Wright" data-description="Lured by the wall, and drawn To stare below the roof, Where pigeons nest aloof From prowling cats and men, I count the sash and bar Secured to granite stone, And note the daylight gone, Supper and silence near. Close to the wall inside, Immured, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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