<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476404" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Without Looking</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Either at my friend's daughter's<br>sixteen-year-old body dumped<br>on the morgue slab, T-shirt<br>stuck fast to one ripped <br>breast I identified quick, and then<br>got out of there</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or at the old gentleman<br>with tubes in the living room, spittle<br>stained in his wispy <br>beard, out of <br>the corner of my eye I hardly<br>notice it, how</div><div style="margin:10px 0">could I, drink in hand<br>at five-thirty, at the least<br>sign of pain one of us always itches<br>to turn away, another turns<br>over in sleep, groans<br>O, we who are so lucky</div><div style="margin:10px 0">just to be able to<br>ignore, go back<br>quick, to our books, to<br>have books, even, how<br>difficult it is to look<br>hard and head<br>on has not been said</div><div style="margin:10px 0">often enough, if prayer<br>is an act of attention<br>even to dropped stitches, blood<br>dangling beneath the lines, the<br>poem? I said,<br>what prepares us for what<br>will never save us?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Anonymous submission.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Patricia+Goedicke">Patricia Goedicke</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=476404" data-title="Without Looking de Patricia Goedicke" data-description="Either at my friend's daughter's sixteen-year-old body dumped on the morgue slab, T-shirt stuck fast to one ripped breast I identified quick, and then got out of there or at the old gentleman with tubes in the living room, spittle stained in his..."></div> </div> </div>

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