<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460304" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>They only feel real when...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘they only feel real when<br>pretending to be themselves…’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sometimes, psychology and poetry and philosophy<br>come close together; and like a dog<br>meeting another dog for the first time, <br>we’re cautious – that statement has legs<br>and claws and teeth … do we want to meet it, <br>might it be more fierce than it looks, <br>is it that ‘too much truth’ which mankind - says poor Tom - <br>cannot bear? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">our tails quarter-wag, wag and stop, <br>our weight’s on our back legs, <br>caution is advised..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we’ll back away right now, <br>wait for the next meeting; <br>meanwhile, there’s always the tree to sniff, <br>a sharp reminder of the bone we’ll gnaw, <br>hide, dig up yet again, and gnaw…<br>gnawing on our own blood not the bone, <br>living a dog’s life, a dogged life, <br>mongrel, thoroughbred, alike: <br>.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">only feeling real, when <br>pretending to be ourselves.</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=460304" data-title="They only feel real when... de Michael Shepherd" data-description="‘they only feel real when pretending to be themselves…’ sometimes, psychology and poetry and philosophy come close together; and like a dog meeting another dog for the first time, we’re cautious – that statement has legs and claws and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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