<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459510" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines from the pub</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You, <br>slim but well-nourished, <br>not unhandsome, dark, perhaps of Middle East descent, <br>who's just come in the door at the speed of<br>a second-ring bellhop<br>carrying a neat cone of not many flowers<br>from the florist's down the road</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but unsmiling, focussed, almost fiercely anxious<br>as if you were a well-trained rifleman<br>yet fearing that you might have missed one vital point in training -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">what are you bringing from an anxious past<br>on this, perhaps, lifetime's vital day<br>for the girl already waiting there whom<br>alas I cannot see to burden with my assumptions -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">what are you bringing from your past<br>besides those flowers, to take<br>into your anxiously-hoped-for future together? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, you may not indeed, right now, be worthy of 'her hand'; <br> - nor may she, indeed, of yours; <br>that's, perhaps, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the miracle of marriage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=459510" data-title="Lines from the pub de Michael Shepherd" data-description="You, slim but well-nourished, not unhandsome, dark, perhaps of Middle East descent, who's just come in the door at the speed of a second-ring bellhop carrying a neat cone of not many flowers from the florist's down the road but unsmiling, focu..."></div> </div> </div>

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