<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=484162" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>88</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">i just had the number<br>88<br>inside my head. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is not a grade<br>not money.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is a mark of what i have done<br>on the other side<br>of my life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i outlive 3,000<br>going on to 4,000<br>i clap my hands, give myself a toast<br>of red wine<br>when i had my first 1,000</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you must remember my 1,000 cranes<br>paper cranes <br>paper poems on cranes and other creatures <br>like butterflies and birds and wind and dust</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they have taken upon themselves the burden of flight<br>they promise me <br>and i have it now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">88, is my new number now.<br>i am inside an elevator and i am going up with you<br>to the nth floor.</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> <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=484162" data-title="88 de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="i just had the number 88 inside my head. it is not a grade not money. it is a mark of what i have done on the other side of my life. i outlive 3,000 going on to 4,000 i clap my hands, give myself a toast of red wine when i had my first 1,000 ..."></div> </div> </div>

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