<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426146" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ticke[te]d Off</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">TICKE[TE]D OFF<br>Cold urns, mold marbled busts, shelved, stored, inanimate<br>mock passion’s pyres unburned, fires shunned through puny life.<br>On Earth few still maintain their stay predestinate, <br>most, weak, betray themselves until the t[h]read of strife<br>is severed - only then, each finds it is too late, <br>trip taken only once is ended by Death’s knife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>7 November 1990 revised 22 December 2008 robi03_0355_robi03_0000 XXX_DZX</div><div style="margin:10px 0">previous title “The Proper Study of Mankind” for previous version see below</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“The Proper Study of Mankind”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>These storied marble busts and urns inanimate<br>mock on where passions grate, avoided during life.<br>On Earth who still believes his stay predestinate? <br>Most, tenets true betray until the t(h) read of strife<br>is severed, - only then, each knows it is too late.<br>The trip is made but once, is ended by Death’s knife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>7 November 1990</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> <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=426146" data-title="Ticke[te]d Off de Jonathan Robin" data-description="TICKE[TE]D OFF Cold urns, mold marbled busts, shelved, stored, inanimate mock passion’s pyres unburned, fires shunned through puny life. On Earth few still maintain their stay predestinate, most, weak, betray themselves until the t[h]read of st..."></div> </div> </div>

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