<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=432178" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Treatise Traded for Tract</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At one time, I so loved your lips<br>That I could overlook the cruel<br>Words which issue out of them, <br>And I so loved your dancing eyes<br>That I could try to see you as<br>The rebel who you said you were, <br>But time has passed and passion's<br>Ebbed. I freeze in fright (or is it<br>Hatred? How those two go hand<br>In hand, as we did once, but never<br>Mind) beside you at your parents'<br>Table, beggared, not by lack of<br>Food, but lack of social integration.<br>I don't own a polo shirt, and my<br>Car doesn't peel and purr. I haven't<br>Made it yet into a comfy cube, from<br>Which I place my bets on teams<br>I've never seen, and I believe, as<br>You asserted, that the beaten<br>Folks, who haunt the rooms<br>Around my own, should be here<br>Now, to take their portions. You, <br>I know, have changed your mind, <br>And gelded, amid gilt, have gone<br>From rebel back to daddy's darling, <br>Echoing his cruel words with <br>Such once-lovely lips.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+Beck">Lawrence Beck</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=432178" data-title="Treatise Traded for Tract de Lawrence Beck" data-description="At one time, I so loved your lips That I could overlook the cruel Words which issue out of them, And I so loved your dancing eyes That I could try to see you as The rebel who you said you were, But time has passed and passion's Ebbed. I freeze i..."></div> </div> </div>

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