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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=484657" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Metaphor Is Easy To Make</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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and so easy to recall 

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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