<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447888" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Cossacks</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Jews, the Cossacks are always coming.<br>Therefore I think the sun spot on my arm<br>is melanoma. Therefore I celebrate<br>New Year's Eve by counting<br>my annual dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My mother, when she was dying,<br>spoke to her visitors of books<br>and travel, displaying serenity<br>as a form of manners, though <br>I could tell the difference.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when I watched you planning<br>for a life you knew<br>you'd never have, I couldn't explain<br>your genuine smile in the face<br>of disaster. Was it denial</div><div style="margin:10px 0">laced with acceptance? Or was it<br>generations of being English--<br>Bront&euml;'s Lucy in Villette<br>living as if no fire raged<br>beneath her dun-colored dress.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I want to live the way you did,<br>preparing for next year's famine with wine<br>and music as if it were a ten-course banquet.<br>But listen: those are hoofbeats<br>on the frosty autumn air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Linda+Pastan">Linda Pastan</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=447888" data-title="The Cossacks de Linda Pastan" data-description="For Jews, the Cossacks are always coming. Therefore I think the sun spot on my arm is melanoma. Therefore I celebrate New Year's Eve by counting my annual dead. My mother, when she was dying, spoke to her visitors of books and travel, displaying ..."></div> </div> </div>

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