<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=423894" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Selecting a Reader</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">a striking title<br>she stops flipping<br>her painted nail<br>edges onto the page<br>the fan tries to turn over</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the clouds, the smoke<br>trail, swirl, twirl, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">her city heart calms to <br>country words</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a brook in deep jungle<br>crystal clear water<br>treking, swishing, <br>tinkling, <br>through a landscape<br>she wishes to be a part</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a hypnotic song<br>soothing a loneliness<br>a disturbed soul<br>below the big Ssh<br>in the bookstore</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the silent brook <br>does its job<br>outside the city buzzes with traffic<br>well, it is time to take a holiday<br>she tells herself<br>and plonk the book goes back <br>to the shelf<br>she swirls past the counter<br>and slowly walks out<br>like a jungle brook<br>her bracelets tinkling<br>the bookstore as calm as she has come</div><div style="margin:10px 0">inspired by</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Selecting A Reader<br>First, I would have her be beautiful, <br>and walking carefully up on my poetry<br>at the loneliest moment of an afternoon, <br>her hair still damp at the neck<br>from washing it. She should be wearing<br>a raincoat, an old one, dirty<br>from not having money enough for the cleaners.<br>She will take out her glasses, and there<br>in the bookstore, she will thumb<br>over my poems, then put the book back<br>up on its shelf. She will say to herself, <br>'For that kind of money, I can get<br>my raincoat cleaned.' And she will. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ted Kooser</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Tiong+Chunghoo">John Tiong Chunghoo</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=423894" data-title="Selecting a Reader de John Tiong Chunghoo" data-description="a striking title she stops flipping her painted nail edges onto the page the fan tries to turn over the clouds, the smoke trail, swirl, twirl, her city heart calms to country words a brook in deep jungle crystal clear water treking, swishing,..."></div> </div> </div>

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