<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447962" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Immortality</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Sleeping Beauty's castle<br>the clock strikes one hundred years<br>and the girl in the tower returns to the world.<br>So do the servants in the kitchen,<br>who don't even rub their eyes.<br>The cook's right hand, lifted<br>an exact century ago,<br>completes its downward arc<br>to the kitchen boy's left ear;<br>the boy's tensed vocal cords<br>finally let go<br>the trapped, enduring whimper,<br>and the fly, arrested mid-plunge<br>above the strawberry pie<br>fulfills its abiding mission<br>and dives into the sweet, red glaze.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a child I had a book<br>with a picture of that scene.<br>I was too young to notice<br>how fear persists, and how<br>the anger that causes fear persists,<br>that its trajectory can't be changed<br>or broken, only interrupted.<br>My attention was on the fly:<br>that this slight body<br>with its transparent wings<br>and life-span of one human day<br>still craved its particular share<br>of sweetness, a century later.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lisel+Mueller">Lisel Mueller</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=447962" data-title="Immortality de Lisel Mueller" data-description="In Sleeping Beauty's castle the clock strikes one hundred years and the girl in the tower returns to the world. So do the servants in the kitchen, who don't even rub their eyes. The cook's right hand, lifted an exact century ago, completes its dow..."></div> </div> </div>

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