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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460362" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0005 The Poetry Reading</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You’re two-thirds the way through.<br>The corners of their mouths are turning down.<br>Their eyes are filming over.<br>Their shoulders are stiffening.<br>They’re in defensive-polite posture.<br>They feel threatened by poetry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But isn’t this just what they should be? <br>Their little worlds, threatened by the greater world out there? <br>Didn’t you have to go through this yourself? <br>For their sake, those who follow, wish to follow? <br>Isn’t this the proof that<br>Poetry Matters? ..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sure – on paper – but not, please, <br>so visibly, and not right now…<br>the carer in you winces; <br>the poet, calls the self to duty; <br>the teacher in you, piercing of eye and human perception, <br>marks them off, one by one –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the officers of the poetry society, <br>impassively attentive, have <br>the easiest job – they don’t have to<br>like your poems – just approve, <br>clear up after, lock the hall…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and some look just simply hungry; <br>traffic bad in getting here<br>so get home first, then eat; <br>some find it just too long; <br>a little poetry goes a long way for them; <br>some are here because they think<br>you’ll notice if they aren’t…<br>some have just combined you<br>with a shopping trip to town; culture<br>a kinda penance for the overspend..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">yup, time to flip over the pages<br>to the funnies, and the family ones; <br>turn up the volume of your voice, speed up a little<br>as if you too, are glad it’s ending soon; <br>with a bit of luck, you’ll get them<br>smiling at each other at each poem’s end, towards the end..<br>The applause is warm with virtue and relief.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but at least you threatened them a while -<br>if not with boredom, perhaps with poetry.</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>
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Their eyes are filming over.
Their shoulders are stiffening.
They’re in defensive-polite posture.
They feel threatened by poetry.

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