<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=474018" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Clairvoyant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Clairvoyant</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Over a cold Nordic coast a seagull flies and sees <br>the bay between the island and the coastal town. <br>40 minutes each way by ferry. It’s an old gull and <br>has a blind eye and one leg; yes, you are right, <br>a real pirate I used to know years ago, it knew me <br>too when I was a cook on that a ferry boat, sat on <br>the mast and waited for me to throw scraps of <br>food into the sea shrieking harshly, it is the gulls <br>way of wishing me well. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This year has no ice in the bay, there was a time <br>when the ferry was icebound islander folk had to <br>walk on ice across to get to the shops, they still <br>do [there is a bridge now,) ferry been sold and <br>is plying its trade on the delta of Bangladesh. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The day is clear I’m a seagull and can see the past <br>lucid as the day it is lucky that I can’t see the future, <br>but there is a name that warms my heart: Falluja. <br>The down trodden, the raped, took up arms and <br>fought the mightiest army the world has seen and <br>won a moral victory that one day will bring peace, <br>to Iraq. I’m not a seer, but the old pirate is, flies <br>beside me now and harshly shrieks, it is the way we <br>seagulls greet each other.</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=474018" data-title="The Clairvoyant de Oskar Hansen" data-description="The Clairvoyant Over a cold Nordic coast a seagull flies and sees the bay between the island and the coastal town. 40 minutes each way by ferry. It’s an old gull and has a blind eye and one leg; yes, you are right, a real pirate I used to k..."></div> </div> </div>

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