<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478554" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Thanksgiving</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What a day to dismantle a roller-coaster.<br>Well, they are taking it down--<br>the tracks are all over the ground<br>and the ties drawn up. The ticket office<br>is shut, the calliope covered with tarps.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These workmen move their rides<br>from town to town, with the weather,<br>and a day gained dismantling<br>is a day to them. They are grateful<br>for the day gained, and for the silence<br>in a park where only ducks and I remain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As if against the numb fall sky,<br>sounds of hammers and crowbars<br>and the changing voice of one man's oldest son<br>rebound from pond to light pole and away.<br>Tomorrow they'll be on their way<br>to Arkansas, or a place they haven't<br>been before; today they're making time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today they're making time. The doors<br>of the van are open, the van is dark.<br>The cars stand there in a line, as if<br>they are not well or have something<br>to tell the man who stands on the tail-gate.<br>This corner of the park is nearly flat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Peter+Klappert">Peter Klappert</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=478554" data-title="Thanksgiving de Peter Klappert" data-description="What a day to dismantle a roller-coaster. Well, they are taking it down-- the tracks are all over the ground and the ties drawn up. The ticket office is shut, the calliope covered with tarps. These workmen move their rides from town to town, with..."></div> </div> </div>

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