<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415253" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hook</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was only a young man<br>In those days. On that evening<br>The cold was so God damned<br>Bitter there was nothing.<br>Nothing. I was in trouble<br>With a woman, and there was nothing<br>There but me and dead snow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stood on the street corner<br>In Minneapolis, lashed<br>This way and that.<br>Wind rose from some pit,<br>Hunting me.<br>Another bus to Saint Paul<br>Would arrive in three hours,<br>If I was lucky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the young Sioux<br>Loomed beside me, his scars<br>Were just my age.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ain't got no bus here<br>A long time, he said.<br>You got enough money<br>To get home on?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What did they do<br>To your hand? I answered.<br>He raised up his hook into the terrible starlight<br>And slashed the wind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, that? he said.<br>I had a bad time with a woman. Here,<br>You take this.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did you ever feel a man hold<br>Sixty-five cents<br>In a hook,<br>And place it<br>Gently<br>In your freezing hand?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I took it.<br>It wasn't the money I needed.<br>But I took it.</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=415253" data-title="Hook de James Arlington Wright" data-description="I was only a young man In those days. On that evening The cold was so God damned Bitter there was nothing. Nothing. I was in trouble With a woman, and there was nothing There but me and dead snow. I stood on the street corner In Minneapolis, lash..."></div> </div> </div>

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