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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=483972" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>36</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">a metaphor is easy to make<br>and so easy to recall</div><div style="margin:10px 0">remember the cat's feet like a fog<br>leaving softly the harbor in the city? <br>remember a misery that jumps like a flea &<br>bites you and you cannot sleep<br>and you say life is like that<br>a flea</div><div style="margin:10px 0">remember<br>you think of time as a growing child<br>a man, <br>a wild man running and chasing<br>virgins that must make most of their time<br>because<br>time is a-flying and<br>the rose that blooms today<br>tomorrow<br>may be dying</div><div style="margin:10px 0">remember time in a bottle</div><div style="margin:10px 0">remember life like a fruit fly trapped<br>trying to figure<br>out how to escape<br>and you say life is like that<br>a fruit fly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">remember death<br>like a woman sleeping in her chambers<br>closing the curtains<br>and you say<br>death is like that<br>a mere closing of a curtain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">just like that</div><div style="margin:10px 0">remember how<br>loneliness is like a steel tunnel<br>you get in there, <br>some birds hover and fly away from you<br>you get in there, <br>and there seems to be no light visible<br>at the end</div><div style="margin:10px 0">loneliness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">life is like that</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you see<br>metaphors and dissect every vein<br>every artery<br>every bone and<br>cartilage of<br>these metaphors that you<br>say do not exist<br>in prose</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>, , , , , , , , , , , that you say do not exist in my prose</div><div style="margin:10px 0">mine is not poetry<br>mine is a poverty of poetry<br>and you claim<br>yours is the basket the cornocupia of true poetry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">good for you, you are the prima donna<br>of this<br>dance<br>this quibble in poetry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it does not matter</div><div style="margin:10px 0">give me some metaphors<br>about poverty, discrimination, meaninglessness, <br>purposelessness, <br>non-being, the metaphysics of early death<br>a being-in-distress<br>an addict<br>a streetchild<br>a battered wife<br>a cruel father<br>a hypocirte priest<br>an embittered professor<br>a disgruntled student<br>give me some metaphors about<br>corruption, lying presidents, secret killings</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you are the master of metaphor<br>you are the queen of slave<br>metaphors</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so be it.<br>make me a poem to the strictures of metaphor<br>give poems a strange face<br>a hybrid of dog and man</div><div style="margin:10px 0">make them read and not understand<br>delude them<br>give them illusions<br>confusions</div><div style="margin:10px 0">make them baffled, submissive, uncritical, uncomplaining<br>complacent, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">bewilder them to your secret, <br>derivative and too personalized<br>metaphors</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and you are happy<br>they do not understand a thing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and they will believe that you are God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for those that we do not understand<br>we call it mystery<br>we call it metaphor<br>we call it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">unquestionable.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">let the oppression stay.<br>let the discrimination live in the metaphors that<br>you have made.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q>
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remember the cat's feet like a fog
leaving softly the harbor in the city? 
remember a misery that jumps like a flea &
bites you and you cannot sleep
and you say life is like that
a flea

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