<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460725" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0264 Toothpaste tubes and toilet seats</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why do I hate you? Let me count the ways...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh I could list them.... but no - not the trivialities<br>that drive us into impotent blind rage<br>committed daily by our partners, children, (parents?) , room-mates -<br>I, you, we, all have that list...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but I sing the joyous list of so-called 'minor' poets<br>who simply spell out, so uproariously<br>our petty human weaknesses, <br>domestic inadequacies, all the idiot joy<br>of living together while apart...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">poets who'll never be on someone else's list<br>of 'ground-breaking' avant-garde great names<br>who with new neighbourings of words and sounds<br>expand humanity's poetic vision of the tears of things; <br>map out the undiscovered mind of years that are yet to be -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">no - poets who, living all our lives for us, <br>confirm, with smiling banal truisms, this comedy, <br>our shared humanity; humans being humans; <br>wishing that we might change, but not too soon, not yet...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and as we smile and groan as poets with their skills <br>list that familiar daily stress and strain -<br>the still, mad music of humanity -<br>love arises.</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=460725" data-title="0264 Toothpaste tubes and toilet seats de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Why do I hate you? Let me count the ways... Oh I could list them.... but no - not the trivialities that drive us into impotent blind rage committed daily by our partners, children, (parents?) , room-mates - I, you, we, all have that list... but ..."></div> </div> </div>

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