<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Several oranges</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At what age does the recognition dawn<br>that grown-ups aren’t quite as bright<br>as they would like – and would like you –<br>to think? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">An early proof among the many<br>was marmalade – the stuff best tasted<br>when licked off the marmalade spoon, or<br>if Mom tried to make it (big wooden spoon) or<br>scraped off stodge pudden at your school…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and best, the one that came in brown stone jars<br>because that was cheaper; lettered in black<br>to say it came from Keiller’s; and was made <br>from several oranges, so grown-ups said…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">well, how obvious can you get? A big stone jar<br>or even a glass jar, was bigger than a single orange..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and couldn’t grown-ups spell either? <br>Their later proffered excuse was to be just as phoney –<br>How could all that marmalade<br>come from just one town which the Jogrufy mistress<br>said was somewhere in Spain? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet another reason to add to your growing decision<br>never to be a grown-up… so sadly over-rated…</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=461054" data-title="Several oranges de Michael Shepherd" data-description="At what age does the recognition dawn that grown-ups aren’t quite as bright as they would like – and would like you – to think? An early proof among the many was marmalade – the stuff best tasted when licked off the marmalade spoon, or i..."></div> </div> </div>

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