<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418230" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>It would be neat if with the New Year</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">for Miguel</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It would be neat if with the New Year<br>I could leave my loneliness behind with the old year.<br>My leathery loneliness an old pair of work boots<br>my dog vigorously head-shakes back and forth in its jaws,<br>chews on for hours every day in my front yard—<br>rain, sun, snow, or wind<br>in bare feet, pondering my poem,<br>I’d look out my window and see that dirty pair of boots in the yard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But my happiness depends so much on wearing those boots.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the end of my day<br>while I’m in a chair listening to a Mexican corrido<br>I stare at my boots appreciating:<br>all the wrong roads we’ve taken, all the drug and whiskey houses<br>we’ve visited, and as the Mexican singer wails his pain,<br>I smile at my boots, understanding every note in his voice,<br>and strangers, when they see my boots rocking back and forth on my<br> feet<br>keeping beat to the song, see how<br>my boots are scuffed, tooth-marked, worn-soled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I keep wearing them because they fit so good<br>and I need them, especially when I love so hard,<br>where I go up those boulder strewn trails,<br>where flowers crack rocks in their defiant love for the light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jimmy+Santiago+Baca">Jimmy Santiago Baca</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=418230" data-title="It would be neat if with the New Year de Jimmy Santiago Baca" data-description="for Miguel It would be neat if with the New Year I could leave my loneliness behind with the old year. My leathery loneliness an old pair of work boots my dog vigorously head-shakes back and forth in its jaws, chews on for hours every day in my f..."></div> </div> </div>

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