<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=486077" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At The Farm</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is this world of farmworkers<br>riceplanters and coconut gatherers<br>they have a language of their own, <br>their dreams so earthbound and<br>so unlike our sophistications, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">they talk about what to eat<br>only for this day, their desserts <br>plain sugar chunks, their main<br>dish just plain rice, their drinks<br> just plain water from the well <br>and their feast, a bowl of <br>extra rice and two pieces of<br>dried fish, and they talk about<br>their sunday dance with the <br>banana vendors and the <br>charms of the housemaids<br>at the north end of the barrio.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">simple dreams of day to<br>day existences of what is <br>just within their grasp and <br>hold: just today and no <br>peeping about what <br>tomorrow may bring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and yet, i see them, they<br>laugh the hardest in the<br>fields and talk about sex<br>without restraints, and<br>i must agree: they are<br>happier than all of us<br>on this earth combined.</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=486077" data-title="At The Farm de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="there is this world of farmworkers riceplanters and coconut gatherers they have a language of their own, their dreams so earthbound and so unlike our sophistications, they talk about what to eat only for this day, their desserts plain sugar ch..."></div> </div> </div>

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