<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=468674" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Embrace Noir</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I go back to the scene where the two men embrace<br>& grapple a handgun at stomach level between them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They jerk around the apartment like that<br>holding on to each other, their cheeks</div><div style="margin:10px 0">almost touching. One is shirtless, the other<br>wears a suit, the one in the suit came in through a window</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to steal documents or diamonds, it doesn't matter anymore <br>which, what's important is he was found</div><div style="margin:10px 0">& someone pulled a gun, and now they are holding on,<br>awkwardly dancing through the room, upending</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a table of small framed photographs. A chair<br>topples, Sinatra's band punches the air with horns, I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">lean forward, into the screen, they are eye-to-eye,<br>as stiff as my brother &amp; me when we attempt</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to hug. Soon, the gun fires and the music<br>quiets, the camera stops tracking and they</div><div style="margin:10px 0">relax, shoulders drop, their jaws go slack<br>& we are all suspended in that perfect moment</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when no one knows who took the bullet--<br>the earth spins below our feet, a blanket of swallows</div><div style="margin:10px 0">changes direction suddenly above us, folding<br>into the rafters of a barn, and the two men</div><div style="margin:10px 0">no longer struggle, they simply stand in their wreckage<br>propped in each other's arms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Nick+Flynn">Nick Flynn</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=468674" data-title="Embrace Noir de Nick Flynn" data-description="I go back to the scene where the two men embrace & grapple a handgun at stomach level between them. They jerk around the apartment like that holding on to each other, their cheeks almost touching. One is shirtless, the other wears a suit, the on..."></div> </div> </div>

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