<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471542" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Taverns</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Amongst buoyant chortles<br>And charlatan tales<br>From sinewy gutters<br>Of jocund corruptions<br>The wafting jigger<br>And latticing clambers<br>Of fervent tongues brought<br>Nostalgia dissipated<br>From the clogged pores<br>Of the shriveling skin, <br>And melancholia was<br>As evasive as the wind<br>With the yearning dithering<br>In the echopractic reveling<br>Frosted eyes mounted the seams<br>Of barricading sierras<br>And you wouldn't hear <br>The riddance of the opened doors</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In these taverns<br>You may rest your head<br>And haunt with<br>The phantom of the blunt<br>Susurrations of the floor<br>Clad with anguished blood<br>Purging the mausoleum gore<br>Residing in the bones<br> <br>In these taverns<br>You may play the puppet<br>Stringed to your own<br>And play the criminal<br>In a sordid carnival<br>Botching to pilfer<br>The hooked gambler's<br>Clandestine pockets<br>Or somebody else's<br>Putrefaction <br>And be hailed<br>A hero</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In these taverns<br>You will go astray<br>With the roars of<br>Singeing throats<br>And in the predicament<br>Impaled with grills<br>You shall be found<br>Moseying<br>With charred feet<br>And holding<br>A sedentary poem<br>Basking in the eyes<br>Of inebriation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In these taverns<br>There's a pot of gold<br>Swimming with the arrows<br>That struck the strings<br>Of fettered birds<br>And they are winnowed<br>By the fluent humming<br>Of false hopes<br>And sedative truths.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In these taverns<br>You may come<br>And you may go, <br>As everyone else will, <br>But you would leave<br>With the toll<br>Of a spiteful<br>Meandering.</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=471542" data-title="Taverns de Norman Santos" data-description="Amongst buoyant chortles And charlatan tales From sinewy gutters Of jocund corruptions The wafting jigger And latticing clambers Of fervent tongues brought Nostalgia dissipated From the clogged pores Of the shriveling skin, And melancholia was As..."></div> </div> </div>

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