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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460671" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0201 Two skins, one thick, one thin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, don’t open that door. Don’t try.<br>It’s locked anyway. Or should be. Some people say<br>it’s worse than seeing their first dead body<br>half dead half alive, they never quite forget it.<br>Me I’m used to them. Them? Well OK, <br>I shan’t let you look but I’ll tell you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s my two body suits.<br>Thin skin, thick skin.<br>When I go out in the thin skin<br>life’s more exciting but god it’s tiring.<br>A trip on public transport and I come back finished.<br>I see things, feel things rather, that are scary.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see people’s next lives they’re creating for themselves.<br>There’s this blind school round the corner; <br>I saw them all on the station platform once and I could see<br>those who were going to see properly, next time, <br>those who were making themselves blinder…<br>then next day I saw an ordinary ‘seeing’ man talking to a friend<br>without using his eyes, just dead ahead…how could I tell him? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another time, I sat next to a man<br>who looked as if he’d slept rough<br>but the scary thing was, he was giving off such intense heat<br>that I knew sure as sure, he’d just murdered somebody…<br>I never knew that was a clue…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see everybody’s perfection and their present self<br>simultaneously. You might think it’s wonderful.<br>Yes and no. Not when you’re wearing your thin skin.<br>Yes, of course it’s great for poetry…that’s why<br>I bought it, why I wear it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The thick skin’s for business, interviews, being fired, <br>the Editor’s office, the dentist, the doctor, <br>the mother-in-law, the footfall<br>in the dark alley, all the times you just<br>want to be tough, insensitive, eff the lot of them, <br>guess I don’t need to list all that? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yes, sometimes you can go out in the wrong one.<br>A friend tells you of some awful family disaster<br>and you think, thick-skinned, well that’s their problem, <br>let them sort it out… and hate yourself for even thinking it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or someone looks at you on the wrong day<br>like you’re looking at me now, <br>sorta disbelieving, disgusted and pitying..<br>gotta go. Seeyerlater.</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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It’s locked anyway. Or should be. Some people say
it’s worse than seeing their first dead body
half dead half alive, they never quite forget it.
Me I’m used to them. Them? Well OK, 
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