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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425427" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Initial Impressions - 0160</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Initial impressions of Anne: a portrait<br>here follows, as of that short trip I relate<br>in amateur adjectives alliterate, <br>as ever, in jest, the events I narrate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Rise six, arrive seven, I mustn't be late, <br>my meetings eleven, thereon turns my fate.<br>I mean to be early, I'm sure they won't wait; <br>rush, hurry to Roissy, take off is at eight! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At first all goes smoothly, check-in at the gate, <br>with only a briefcase, no baggage nor weight, <br>on tapis he passed me, has he too a date? <br>We're sitting apart while to board we await.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The minutes seem seconds while I concentrate<br>upon my good fortune and evaluate<br>alternate employment. The chances seem great<br>in corporate finance, no more to stagnate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But minutes and seconds soon accumulate, <br>and others around us complain, remonstrate; <br>the plane is delayed, which my plans may frustrate.<br>I'm bored, chat while waiting, inside fulminate! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For nine-o'clock ticks while no immediate<br>signs of flight departure as yet emanate<br>from Air France, 'London's fog bound' so surly they state: <br>irate travellers round the desk congregate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then sounds of activity near indicate<br>an aircraft is ready, its engines vibrate, <br>quick, over to B.A., with inquiring gait<br>I fly, and he follows, to investigate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just four total strangers do not hesitate, <br>adroitly are able to anticipate<br>the Trident's departure, and seats relocate.<br>the others remain, though with rage radiate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ere onto the runway we accelerate, <br>we glance at each other, begin to relate.<br>I, Lady from Lanvin, groomed immaculate; <br>while he, what can he be, so weary, barbate? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I, Lady from Lanvin, groomed immaculate, <br>stylish exterior, career orientate, <br>yet deep down within me, a fleur feminate<br>seeks an exit to 'be', both to blossom, create! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's a gemmed golden clover, conceived chez Chaumet<br>adorning my finger so fair, annulate, <br>do not be deceived though, those tips roseate<br>have also known sorrow, and sadness I hate! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As sedate expressions oft dissimulate<br>unease, insecurity, I isolate<br>the sentiment somehow that I'm second rate<br>by progress in business, false fears compensate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ahead in my field, I the rest dominate, <br>create, affiliate, then amalgamate, <br>expansion advocate then conglomerate: <br>this surely must prove I'm not inadequate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pieds sur terre, in the air, we do debate.<br>Merchant Banks' merits, that most denigrate.<br>He offers the option to collaborate<br>in equity placing, a job which does bate! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soon 'please fasten seat-belt' signs flash luminate, <br>as through dew-decked clouds we dive, decelerate.<br>Earth rises to greet us, we've landed, brakes grate.<br>then tired Trident taxis to terminal gate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Quickly through Customs to where ranked cabbies wait<br>then speeding past Palace towards Bishopsgate.<br>Through noon's terrible traffic jam we navigate, <br>At Cheapside we part, leaving me to my fate.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(24 September 1978)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q>
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here follows, as of that short trip I relate
in amateur adjectives alliterate, 
as ever, in jest, the events I narrate.

'Rise six, arrive seven, I mustn't be late, 
my meetings eleven, thereon turns my fate..."></div>
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