<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460152" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Moments like knife cuts</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They’re too silly to be serious, <br>too serious to be silly…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">those moments when your raw<br>adolescent ego (and how long it lasted…) <br>is hurt to the quick…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how you’d like to forget it, <br>it’s so trivial… but you can’t; <br>so then, you’d like to laugh at it; <br>maybe make a jokey verse about it…<br>but that doesn’t work, either…<br>and, as if it mattered…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when I was forever desperate<br>for the approval of any stranger, <br>let alone a friend, <br>someone brought along to meet us<br>such a stranger whom we all admired, <br>all wished to be…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">discreetly, we presented him<br>with what we hoped would find<br>some favour in his eyes…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the report on the two of us<br>came back: ‘One has a mean mouth; <br>the other is a nonentity…’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the ‘other one’ reported this to me; <br>could not bear to speculate, I felt, <br>which, he, which, me…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">fifty years ago, <br>it’s still rattling around in the memory, <br>waiting to be erased, <br>or to be laughed out of court…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">adolescence, once, is quite enough: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’m still wondering, which one to choose<br>that would have hurt me more…</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=460152" data-title="Moments like knife cuts de Michael Shepherd" data-description="They’re too silly to be serious, too serious to be silly… those moments when your raw adolescent ego (and how long it lasted…) is hurt to the quick… how you’d like to forget it, it’s so trivial… but you can’t; so then, you’..."></div> </div> </div>

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