<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=486000" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At 55...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">they married at a late age, <br>she was then 35 and he was<br>then 40, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a friend of hers said<br>that the marriage is doomed<br>she later died<br>but they offered her white flowers<br>to break the curse</div><div style="margin:10px 0">his mother did not want her for him<br>she said she cannot be a good wife<br>she knew she had a history<br>of existential tonsillitis<br>whatever that means<br>he did not ask and she did not elaborate</div><div style="margin:10px 0">their marriage sailed on<br>like Titanic, but unlike it, it did not sink<br>there is no boasting somehow<br>that this can be unsinkable<br>(for no one knows<br>what is suggested on the <br>lines of their palms) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">then, just like rivers, and droughts<br>waters evaporate, rivers become ordinary dry beds<br>for stones</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they have something to prove<br>their marriage must last<br>the lust is gone<br>their skins loosen<br>their teeth fell<br>their bones clang<br>their feet shaky</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they decided that they can just be best friends for the meantime<br>till death tear them both apart.</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=486000" data-title="At 55... de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="they married at a late age, she was then 35 and he was then 40, a friend of hers said that the marriage is doomed she later died but they offered her white flowers to break the curse his mother did not want her for him she said she cannot be a..."></div> </div> </div>

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