<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428505" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Small Comfort</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Coffee and cigarettes in a clean cafe,<br>forsythia lit like a damp match against<br>a thundery sky drunk on its own ozone,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the laundry cool and crisp and folded away<br>again in the lavender closet-too late to find<br>comfort enough in such small daily moments</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of beauty, renewal, calm, too late to imagine<br>people would rather be happy than suffering<br>and inflicting suffering. We're near the end,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but O before the end, as the sparrows wing<br>each night to their secret nests in the elm's green dome<br>O let the last bus bring</div><div style="margin:10px 0">love to lover, let the starveling<br>dog turn the corner and lope suddenly<br>miraculously, down its own street, home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katha+Pollitt">Katha Pollitt</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=428505" data-title="Small Comfort de Katha Pollitt" data-description="Coffee and cigarettes in a clean cafe, forsythia lit like a damp match against a thundery sky drunk on its own ozone, the laundry cool and crisp and folded away again in the lavender closet-too late to find comfort enough in such small daily mome..."></div> </div> </div>

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