<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=417209" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rough Beast</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't tell a camel about need and want.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look at the big lips<br>pursed<br>in perpetual kiss,<br>the dangerous lashes<br>of a born coquette.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The camel is an animal<br>grateful for less.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It keeps to itself<br>the hidden spring choked with grass,<br>the sharpest thorn<br>on the sweetest stalk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When a voice was heard crying in the wilderness,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when God spoke<br>from the burning bush,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the camel was the only animal<br>to answer back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dune on stilts,<br>it leans into the long horizon,<br>bloodhounding</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the secret caches of watermelon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">brought forth like manna<br>from the sand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It will bear no false gods<br>before it:<br>not the trader<br>who cinches its hump<br>with rope,<br>nor the tourist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It has a clear sense of its place in the world:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">after water and watermelon,<br>heat and light,<br>silence and science,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is the last great hope,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Noah's ark,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Virgin of the oasis<br>who brings forth milk<br>under a deadly sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Year after year<br>it follows the bright stars<br>east, falls to its knees<br>for the lowliest king.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Except, of course, when the top lip<br>lifts like a curtain<br>on a mighty sneer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then you may hear,<br>out of the mouth of that rough beast,<br>the walls of the wide world<br>collapse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Anonymous submission.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jean+Monahan">Jean Monahan</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=417209" data-title="Rough Beast de Jean Monahan" data-description="Don't tell a camel about need and want. Look at the big lips pursed in perpetual kiss, the dangerous lashes of a born coquette. The camel is an animal grateful for less. It keeps to itself the hidden spring choked with grass, the sharpest thorn..."></div> </div> </div>

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