<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471072" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>21st</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let me recount a memoir<br>In shards of besmirched recollections<br>And serrated blades of deviations<br>Over bottles and quicksands<br>Of a lifeline's merriment<br>From enduring further two decades<br>Of a constant teeter-totter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was enthused by my best man<br>With the candor of his own men, <br>Mellifluously caressing the pallid<br>Tongues of blazing resistance<br>To divulge the lion's soul<br>Beneath the asunder escritoire<br>And harlequin guzzles.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By God, swell it was! <br>All four of us cloyed by the seawalls<br>Of alcohol, nicotine, and the saccharine<br>Innocuous chances of guffawing<br>Until I scampered too far<br>Squandering a forbidden road<br>And astray in the fastidious voyage<br>To kiss a released double-decker bus<br>And there goes the endless topple<br>And the rapine of the verisimilitude<br>Of a birthday celebration.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can reckon a shivering star<br>Though she was inert and tepid<br>‘Twas my vision that undulates<br>As she slewed away my interstate, <br>She was mantled in macadamized clouds<br>Soothing in brambly consoles<br>And that was all that there was.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Norman+Santos">Norman Santos</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=471072" data-title="21st de Norman Santos" data-description="Let me recount a memoir In shards of besmirched recollections And serrated blades of deviations Over bottles and quicksands Of a lifeline's merriment From enduring further two decades Of a constant teeter-totter. It was enthused by my best man Wi..."></div> </div> </div>

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