<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=484564" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Litany</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">recall the years<br>what do you remember? those baggy pants of college years<br>and leather belts tight around your waist</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a grassy soccer field<br>some husky men playing their games</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a bench where five women are sitting<br>each hand with ice cream melting on each cone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the corridor where she waits for you<br>and the corner where you evade her gaze</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the stairs leading you to the fourth floor<br>and the silent people who dwell there</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the harsh microphone on the first year<br>welcoming you from that far mountain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a room filled with books and notes<br>a lampshade that blinks without end</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a coconut bed with bugs that bite him <br>as he sleeps soundly without minding</div><div style="margin:10px 0">some empty rooms on the left wing<br>teeth are gnashing there and your silence</div><div style="margin:10px 0">tiptoeing feet of drunken roomates<br>hiding the empty bottles under their beds</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is a litany of images of the past<br>like some fireflies at night i shall let them go</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i close this jar and there is nothing inside it<br>nothing to entice at all but just to remember</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then forget and then i move on<br>my feet with its new shoes are always ready to go</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=484564" data-title="A Litany de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="recall the years what do you remember? those baggy pants of college years and leather belts tight around your waist a grassy soccer field some husky men playing their games a bench where five women are sitting each hand with ice cream melting on..."></div> </div> </div>

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