<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=491534" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On A White Bench</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">at the plaza of this town<br>fronting the cafe<br>where i am now writing this poem</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i see a white cemented bench<br>beside a mahogany tree<br>three men are sitting<br>they are talking<br>and i cannot hear them<br>i am walled<br>by this glass wall</div><div style="margin:10px 0">one wears a white cap<br>holding a radio<br>blue faded jeans<br>and rubber shoes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the second one<br>a brown subanen native<br>wearing a white shirt<br>with a political ads<br>to vote for mayor dong</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the third one<br>already left before i finished this poem</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i could have described him<br>but i fell short of time and sensitivity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i ask someone beside me<br>what these three men are up to</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they are waiting <br>they are looking for a job on this hard times<br>when the price of rice has gone high<br>together with the gas</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i know you want something more than this kind of write<br>did i keep you waiting too? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">tell me did i keep you waiting too for something that you want me to tell you? <br>i have nothing to tell you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how does it feel to wait, hours perhaps, for something that does not come/<br>how does it feel to wait</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for nothing? tell me, tell me, if you understand now, how is it to sit on a white<br>bench beside a mahogany tree, in the plaza, in front of an internet cafe</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where i write a poem<br>and nothing nothing really happens</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=491534" data-title="On A White Bench de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="at the plaza of this town fronting the cafe where i am now writing this poem i see a white cemented bench beside a mahogany tree three men are sitting they are talking and i cannot hear them i am walled by this glass wall one wears a white cap h..."></div> </div> </div>

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