<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=492553" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ronnie</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My friend Ronnie when he<br>retired as literature teacher invested<br>his money in books</div><div style="margin:10px 0">he bought crates and crates of<br>books from the United States<br>and brought them<br>to the Philippines</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to include a number of his favorite<br>poetry books bearing such authors<br>as frost, walt, derek, etcetera<br>and he invites me in<br>for some hours<br>as he loves to read these poems aloud<br>and discuss the meaning of <br>each metaphor</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for he is a poet in his own little way<br>a right he claims somehow<br>and modesty aside i also write some<br>published sometimes<br>and he finds me<br>a compliment to this blank spaces</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and so we indulge in this higher<br>state of literary affairs until he could not<br>accept that i know more about <br>his favorite poet than he does</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i mean, i know it by heart<br>he sometimes gets away from this kind of loving<br>until he gets offended and shies away <br>from my own way of<br>intellectual desperation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">he did not invite me anymore<br>his books took the revenge<br>letting in more dusts more dusts more dusts<br>with no finger prints</div><div style="margin:10px 0">until he died, his greed for books went with him<br>the books that till date, <br>remained virgins.</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=492553" data-title="Ronnie de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="My friend Ronnie when he retired as literature teacher invested his money in books he bought crates and crates of books from the United States and brought them to the Philippines to include a number of his favorite poetry books bearing such auth..."></div> </div> </div>

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