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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452162" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Impromptu No.4 In A-Flat Major</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Freedom to choose, oh yes, I can choose<br>to focus on translations - or write a poem<br>and delight in singing lines, feeling guilty<br>about my escape from tortuous life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I may not escape my job of grinding words<br>and lines, crunching melody, rhythm and<br>sound - leaving meaning only - which<br>pays the bills and buys pretty things</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Reading discordant and dissonant texts<br>that hurt ears and eyes - but all choice<br>entails responsibility for consequence: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who can be free in choosing between<br>the devil and the deep blue sea, why al-<br>ways negative outcomes irrespective of<br>choice? If you do you suffer, if you don't<br>you simply suffer another way</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Freedom means choosing between all<br>kinds of suffering - whatever we do, the<br>result is guilt and misery, meaning we<br>can only choose how to deal with life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Smiling while praying for quick release or<br>cynically surrendering to life's vicissitudes<br>bowing in bitter resignation - freedom be-<br>comes a choice between attitudes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Acceptance or rejection of every condition, <br>it's tiring to be angry all the time, easier to<br>laugh, La Comédie Humaine is fun, we all<br>fall down and get up a million times</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Crying would spoil the mask we wear, lay<br>our secret feelings bare - we can gravitate<br>towards laughter wherever it rings, as long<br>as we can resonate with its happiness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In spite of sinking in quicksand, we can sing, <br>until we are beheaded at the guillotine or<br>hung upon a cross, we can be as pious<br>or as raucous as we choose</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I choose piety because it is more beautiful, <br>if our lives have to end in tragedy, I want<br>mine to please with harmonious lines -<br>listening to spiritual renditions of</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Schubert - Impromptu No.4 in A-flat major, <br>Boccherini's Minuet, Debussy - Clair de<br>Lune - while taking leave of life to <br>continue existence somewhere<br>beyond Planet Earth</div><div style="margin:10px 0">beyond this universe where visual forms <br>suppress the sound of metre and melody, <br>only one meaning allowed, symbols <br>reduced to define a reality </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stripped of all emotion, where association<br>and connotation are outlawed - we are<br>changed into a workforce bearing the <br>yoke of life while being robbed from </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Imagination and feeling...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Alice+Second">Margaret Alice Second</a><div class=q>
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to focus on translations - or write a poem
and delight in singing lines, feeling guilty
about my escape from tortuous life

I may not escape my job of grinding words
and lines, crunching melody, rhythm and
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