<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=486732" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cleaning Myself Up</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">after a series of<br>circumlocutions like i were an acrobat<br>in a Chinese show</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i come back<br>to where i am<br>to being an island again</div><div style="margin:10px 0">on a river bank without<br>a boat</div><div style="margin:10px 0">on two separate distant banks without<br>a bridge</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we have depths too just like<br>dark blue lakes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">back to this choice of <br>isolation <br>on the thinking that i am different</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that both of us<br>must not be hurt unnecessarily<br>because they are very different from us</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as this time they are<br>toasting glasses of champagne to each other<br>celebrating life<br>and enjoying a banquet under their<br>lucky stars</div><div style="margin:10px 0">back to writing and you are back<br>into computations</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how many seconds are there in a boring day? <br>how many insignificant days make up a year? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then it is Christmas<br> you remind me on day</div><div style="margin:10px 0">after i come out from the bath room giving myself another shower<br>to freshen myself up as i shake off the water from my<br>white hair<br>cleaning myself<br>shaving off those extra hair<br>in my nose and<br>armpits</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>busy, busy<br>as though i am a miner with black dusts of coal all around my body<br>twenty days underground</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=486732" data-title="Cleaning Myself Up de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="after a series of circumlocutions like i were an acrobat in a Chinese show i come back to where i am to being an island again on a river bank without a boat on two separate distant banks without a bridge we have depths too just like dark blue ..."></div> </div> </div>

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