<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478625" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Blizzard</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that the worst is over, they predict<br>Something messy and difficult, though not<br>Life-threatening. Clearly we needed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To stock up on water and candles, making<br>Tureens of soup and things that keep<br>When electricity fails and phone lines fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Igloos rise on air conditioners, gargoyles<br>Fly and icicles shatter. Frozen runways,<br>Lines in markets, and paralyzed avenues</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Verify every fear. But there is warmth<br>In this sudden desire to sleep,<br>To surrender to our common condition</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With joy, watching hours of news<br>Devoted to weather. People finally stop<br>To talk to each other - the neighbors</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We didn't know were always here.<br>Today they are ready for business,<br>Armed with a new vocabulary,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Casting their saga in phrases as severe<br>As last night's snow: damage assessment,<br>Evacuation, emergency management.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shift of the wind matters again,<br>And we are so simple, so happy to hear<br>The scrape of a shovel next door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Phillis+Levin">Phillis Levin</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=478625" data-title="The Blizzard de Phillis Levin" data-description="Now that the worst is over, they predict Something messy and difficult, though not Life-threatening. Clearly we needed To stock up on water and candles, making Tureens of soup and things that keep When electricity fails and phone lines fall. Igl..."></div> </div> </div>

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