<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=463772" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mermaid</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, there it as-<br>An image composed of droplets mustering into focus<br>Reversible. Itself of itself the watery isomer.<br>Idea given substance, however tenuous and fading-<br>Tail, head, tail, tail, head.<br>An ancient enigma, certainly not pretty<br>But in sum, bewitching.<br>Had it power over flesh, could it see me? <br>Only indirectly, I recalled, as in the water's mirror, <br>And I must desire it first.<br>'Choose', said the hologram, sternly, from its higher station.<br>It was as if a hand had suddenly cupped my head.<br>But what part of the mermaid was I? <br>The muscular tail that could knock a man clear<br>Across a quarterdeck, against the rail? <br>A treacherous tail with a fornix? <br>Dumbly pummeling the floorboards, waterborne no more, <br>Spectral hues revived with a bucket of sea-water<br>Sparkled like a Roman grotto? <br>Judgement recoiled from the notion.<br>No, I would not! <br>The sickening barnacles, sea worts, the loathesome remoras, <br>Flukes, raggedy, gummed with oily beads<br>Always needing combing, combing, combing-<br>I touched my...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Morgan+Michaels">Morgan Michaels</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=463772" data-title="Mermaid de Morgan Michaels" data-description="Yet, there it as- An image composed of droplets mustering into focus Reversible. Itself of itself the watery isomer. Idea given substance, however tenuous and fading- Tail, head, tail, tail, head. An ancient enigma, certainly not pretty But in sum..."></div> </div> </div>

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