<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477120" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gossip (Stream XVIII)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She squirreled away her gossip<br>Like round brown nuts<br>To be savoured later<br>To be pulled over <br>And inspected<br>With those aged friends<br>With nothing better to do<br>And too much time on wrinkled hands, <br>Clawed and arthritic.<br>Hands that have seen hard work, <br>Hard times.<br>That held children <br>Or caressed husbands long gone.<br>Heads bent close<br>Their hair monuments to the coiffure's art<br>Shades of pink and purple <br>Colour rinsed.<br>Rinsed out.<br>Heads nodding<br>They savour each tidbit<br>Pink tongues savouring its essence<br>Their hungry round mouths.<br>Gobble each morsel.<br>Pick over its bones<br>For this is all they have.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">P H Brookes Copyright 2012.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Brookes">Paul Brookes</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=477120" data-title="Gossip (Stream XVIII) de Paul Brookes" data-description="She squirreled away her gossip Like round brown nuts To be savoured later To be pulled over And inspected With those aged friends With nothing better to do And too much time on wrinkled hands, Clawed and arthritic. Hands that have seen hard work..."></div> </div> </div>

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