<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=488322" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Give Back To The People Their Poems</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">every poem written<br>was taken from them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">picked from the slums<br>and the public market<br>and the churches and<br>lonely houses and <br>dirty bus stations</div><div style="margin:10px 0">like an empty tin can<br>of milk or a rotten tomato<br>or an abandoned shoe<br>a leaflet, a flat tire, <br>uprooted trees, and<br>scattered garbage</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you heard what that<br>woman vendor said<br>about the price of her<br>fish and the price of<br>rice and the price of<br>gasoline that seem<br>to be irreconcilable</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you write them everyday<br>the recent stabbing<br>at the gasoline station<br>and the kidnapping<br>for ransom in that<br>old city where the <br>mayor got most the<br>the ransom money</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you write them everyday<br>giving them a voice<br>in your world of poetry<br>these truths that you<br>have taken away from<br>them: it is time to return<br>them what is due them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">do not ever be silent<br>move on, create the <br>lovely noise, spread the<br>word that the poems<br>on that ivory tower<br>are not there anymore</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=488322" data-title="Give Back To The People Their Poems de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="every poem written was taken from them picked from the slums and the public market and the churches and lonely houses and dirty bus stations like an empty tin can of milk or a rotten tomato or an abandoned shoe a leaflet, a flat tire, uprooted..."></div> </div> </div>

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