<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=491608" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Other Side Of This Equation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">beyond poetry<br>do not think of something<br>deep and mysterious</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is this ordinariness of our<br>everyday life<br>that comes after</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am finished with the last <br>poem for tonight<br>i will be watching the evening news<br>as i sit on an old hard wood <br>chair reserved just for me<br>as i start opening my plate<br>and wipe my spoon and fork<br>with this soft white cloth<br>on a menu of soft rice and<br>unsalted fish and green <br>leafy ferns heavily spiced<br>with onion and red ripe tomatoes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">beyond poetry is this eating<br>this dinner and this listening<br>to the happenings of events<br>around us, this comments of </div><div style="margin:10px 0">tsk tsk tsk<br>and u huh. and what the hell<br>is happening to this country? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">this waste of lives and waste<br>of so much time on matters<br>of injustice and defrauding<br>and blinding and shutting<br>and shouting and shooting</div><div style="margin:10px 0">after this dinner i may read<br>some poems again and even<br>write some more, but it is <br>getting late, and the door <br>is locked and the windows <br>are all closed and the wind<br>has come with a stronger rain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">earlier this time, i have decided<br>to sleep and stop minding what<br>is happening to my surrounding.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">beyond poetry, too, is rest.</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=491608" data-title="On The Other Side Of This Equation de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="beyond poetry do not think of something deep and mysterious it is this ordinariness of our everyday life that comes after i am finished with the last poem for tonight i will be watching the evening news as i sit on an old hard wood chair reser..."></div> </div> </div>

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