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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=449156" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>American Beauty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The perfect American Beauty Rose,<br>is it diminished<br>by the slag heaps on Rt. 11, just west<br>of Scranton, or by the dark cloud<br>that seems to have settled an inch or so <br>beneath the surface of Lake Naomi, <br>or even the swell of soot that hangs <br>like a troubling thought over the town <br>on the other side of the river? <br>Is the rose there any less beautiful? <br>Or this woman here; right now <br>she is standing in the impatient way <br>women have, a hip thrust out, <br>a shoulder let low? She is casual <br>this Sunday morning, in jeans <br>and a simple top, and she stands <br>at the top of the hill holding a cigarette <br>and a leash, waiting for her dog to return. <br>You'll have to take my word for this: <br>she is as lovely as any rose <br>you'll ever find on those long walks you take <br>into the mountains, and nothing about her <br>is diminished by the bombs that are falling <br>this very moment on Afghanistan, the lies <br>packed tight and neat into cartons <br>and stacked with the rest in basements, <br>warehouses and storage rentals <br>throughout Washington, the three point shot <br>dropping like a rock short of the basket <br>in the final seconds of an important moment <br>in someone's life. In fact, it is just the opposite: <br>the grays around us fade&mdash;not reduced, no, <br>nor chased away&mdash;but lost to the flush <br>beauty of the red rose, of the women, <br>in a moment appreciated.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Anonymous submission.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Louis+McKee">Louis McKee</a><div class=q>
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is it diminished
by the slag heaps on Rt. 11, just west
of Scranton, or by the dark cloud
that seems to have settled an inch or so 
beneath the surface of Lake Naomi, 
or even the swell of soot that hangs 
like a ..."></div>
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