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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471320" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Have Seen a Fellow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have known a fellow<br>With a statuesque threshold<br>For the flipping jabs<br>Of kerosene tongues<br>And I had seen him<br>In so many nights<br>Under a farcical lamppost<br>Reckoning the deluging drought<br>That had imposed his inebriation<br>With his sordid fingers latched<br>Into the waist of desolation, <br>And he was scarcely available<br>By the maws of the sun<br>For he is tethered<br>To inadequacy<br>And poverty<br>Of all squalid kinds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have seen this fellow<br>From a distance and he was fine<br>With his dyed chestnut tresses<br>Combing the wisps of light<br>That drifts far from his eyes<br>Which were blackly tired<br>Sunken deep in a vale<br>Dug by his skeptic vision, <br>And then I looked closer<br>Into the marred paper<br>And he was hideous<br>And grotesque.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was lean, too anorexic lean, <br>That the looming sun<br>Cloyed in a taut metal string<br>Can never stroke his spine<br>Slithering in sinewy lids<br>Thus, would never cast his shadow<br>And he was seemingly tall<br>Until he darted through a crowd<br>And cringed without recoil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have seen this fellow<br>Saunter past the catastrophe <br>Of pawned breaths <br>And sycophancies, <br>Dragging his heels<br>Through the scathing embers<br>Of bleak serenity<br>Juggling abortive things<br>On his scrawny hands<br>To dodge the mangling bullets<br>Of the loneliness<br>That he can never avert.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have seen this fellow<br>Clutch his chest at nights<br>Tossing a vigorous cigarette<br>Into the silent bedlam<br>Of the creeping pillars<br>Of the elusive vying for<br>The kiss of the serpent sun</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have seen him strip<br>His medical uniform down<br>Clothes off, lights on<br>Fondling his copper flesh<br>With the caress of his laments<br>And his soul shut<br>The persiennes and swindles<br>A lion's puissant prowl</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have seen this fellow<br>Build lofty fences<br>Of steely open palms rigidly<br>Shearing the foliage<br>Of the vacant sky<br>And likewise, <br>Subtly pleading<br>For alms, <br>And sometimes<br>Saliently groveling<br>In a beguiling barricade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have heard this fellow<br>Pray for what he shouldn't, <br>Rubbing the space juxtaposed<br>The bridge of his nose<br>Until the salty sea<br>Turn into a bitter wine<br>Of spangling crimson<br>And the gush of blood<br>Would sober him up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have seen this fellow<br>Quaver violently<br>From holding the razor<br>To swoon the stubbles<br>Of his clad garden<br>And from avoiding the halloos<br>Of the pulsing in his neck.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have seen this fellow<br>Watch me watch<br>A fellow who never had<br>Anyone looking after<br>In the massive number<br>Of his latent breathing.</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>
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With a statuesque threshold
For the flipping jabs
Of kerosene tongues
And I had seen him
In so many nights
Under a farcical lamppost
Reckoning the deluging drought
That had imposed his inebriation
With his sordid fingers latc..."></div>
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