<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460518" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0032 Conman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Silver-bronze…that was the beauty of your voice, <br>deep and rich and flexible, <br>as you sat yourself down on the bench<br>in the waiting-room on Kensington High Street Station<br>almost deserted on a dull afternoon<br>not long before Christmas</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and spun your almost convincing tale<br>of the African Union scholarship, was it, <br>of which the monthly payout was late this month…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I watched myself, <br>hypnotized by that voice which should be singing<br>Porgy and Bess up there on the stage, <br>and felt good, dammit, that I was<br>trusting a stranger to borrow more than I’d given –<br>let alone lent – any Christmas up to then…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">yes, it felt really good, as if<br>I’d paid for a lesson in how<br>to stop thinking of myself as mean, uncharitable –<br>an hour with a psychotherapist<br>who knew exactly what to relieve me of…<br>at about the standard rate</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=460518" data-title="0032 Conman de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Silver-bronze…that was the beauty of your voice, deep and rich and flexible, as you sat yourself down on the bench in the waiting-room on Kensington High Street Station almost deserted on a dull afternoon not long before Christmas and spun yo..."></div> </div> </div>

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