<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452479" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Sad Child</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You're sad because you're sad.<br>It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.<br>Go see a shrink or take a pill,<br>or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll<br>you need to sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, all children are sad<br>but some get over it.<br>Count your blessings. Better than that,<br>buy a hat. Buy a coat or pet.<br>Take up dancing to forget.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forget what?<br>Your sadness, your shadow,<br>whatever it was that was done to you<br>the day of the lawn party<br>when you came inside flushed with the sun,<br>your mouth sulky with sugar,<br>in your new dress with the ribbon<br>and the ice-cream smear,<br>and said to yourself in the bathroom,<br>I am not the favorite child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My darling, when it comes<br>right down to it<br>and the light fails and the fog rolls in<br>and you're trapped in your overturned body<br>under a blanket or burning car,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the red flame is seeping out of you<br>and igniting the tarmac beside you head<br>or else the floor, or else the pillow,<br>none of us is;<br>or else we all are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Atwood">Margaret Atwood</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=452479" data-title="A Sad Child de Margaret Atwood" data-description="You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better th..."></div> </div> </div>

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