<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473862" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Paradise Lost</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Paradise Lost </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The grass is tall now a cat with a dormouse in its<br>mouth is watching me, not quite an African lion<br>as seen on a BBC, nature program</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I may go to Africa in May, Congo, might not see<br>an elephant or a gorilla but I’m sure to find a war<br>somewhere in the forest, near a diamond mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here, where I live, I can take off my shoes and <br>walk barefoot in the grass, but my feet have been<br>encased in shoes so long they are European now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So am I an African? No not now, but I used to be <br>in an earlier life, that’s why I call Africa my home<br>and tend to idolize and over romanticise the place. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Portugal is a god country to live in and it is closer to <br>my home than, say, Sweden is, and when the south <br>easterly blows dust in my nose smells of Serengeti </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man on the green tractor coming, my way used <br>to live in Angola but had to leave, but Africa never <br>left him, that’s why his has a wistful smile.<br> <br>The Portuguese who had to leave Africa years ago<br>ache for their lost love, they wear the heavy cape <br>of melancholy and speak of returning… one day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A picture 1912, a woman dark sits in a courtyard<br>She is painting her toe nails, looks up and smile <br>I knew her well she used to be wife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oskar+Hansen">Oskar Hansen</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=473862" data-title="Paradise Lost de Oskar Hansen" data-description="Paradise Lost The grass is tall now a cat with a dormouse in its mouth is watching me, not quite an African lion as seen on a BBC, nature program I may go to Africa in May, Congo, might not see an elephant or a gorilla but I’m sure to find a..."></div> </div> </div>

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