<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460442" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0015 Reading a short story of whose life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">and since they say<br>you're the greatest American short story writer, <br>I'm reading the one of yours<br>you chose yourself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and as I'm reading<br>I become two people sitting here: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">there's the cynical grown-up, <br>enjoying it yes but <br>all the time - how's he setting it up, <br>what's he making us feel? - <br>now he's slipping in<br>something a little out of kilter; <br>now it's all going wrong for<br>the guy - hero, villain? <br>now it's coming good again, how's he going to avoid<br>ending in fairyland or in total disaster? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and there's the little person<br>sitting in their tiny warm pajamas, <br>soft, cosy, comforting, <br>laundered with more love<br>than he (or she) 's yet earned in their short life, <br>knowing all this tale<br>from many repetitions<br>but loving this repeated game -<br>suppose<br>that this time, just this once, <br>it's going to end diff'rently...? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so only if I listen ev'ry moment<br>can I make it come out happily this time..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and when it ends - aah - like it should -<br>my tiny toes wiggling with delight -<br>and they live happily ever after...<br>is this the bliss I've not yet earned, <br>but what I'm due - the innocence<br>with which I'm born, and which entitles me<br>to know that this is me; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or am I being told, <br>this is the tale which I must earn with life? that<br>these are love's laws for me to keep?</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=460442" data-title="0015 Reading a short story of whose life de Michael Shepherd" data-description="and since they say you're the greatest American short story writer, I'm reading the one of yours you chose yourself and as I'm reading I become two people sitting here: there's the cynical grown-up, enjoying it yes but all the time - how's h..."></div> </div> </div>

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