<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=474174" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Where The Northwesterly Blows</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where the Northwesterly Blows (memory of a town) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the small park with gloomy trees, near where the factories used to be, <br>was a bust of a man’s image on a plinth. I think it was made of bronze, <br>the head was brown when not striped white by seagull droppings.<br>Mother said he had been a Mesèn; she liked using odd words, desperately <br>trying to keep afloat in a world of tinned sardines in oil and mackerel in<br>tomato sauce. I took it to mean a rich man kind to working people and had <br>donated this sad little park surrounded by damp factory walls; a place where <br>the workers could sit and enjoy the sun. The park was only open Saturday <br>Afternoons and Sundays, one couldn’t have people sitting there during work <br>week. A child climbed over its fence and drowned in a tarn of green algae. <br>The park was eradicated, just as the grim factories were thirty years later. <br>Life was bleak in my town, one neon lit advert, on the night sky “Jesus Saves.” <br>Competing with the stars, and a persistent rumour that the man in the suit <br>shop wore ladies underwear.</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=474174" data-title="Where The Northwesterly Blows de Oskar Hansen" data-description="Where the Northwesterly Blows (memory of a town) In the small park with gloomy trees, near where the factories used to be, was a bust of a man’s image on a plinth. I think it was made of bronze, the head was brown when not striped white by s..."></div> </div> </div>

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