<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=493749" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Alligator...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">detach the cover<br>the book is naked<br>its face is blanked<br>it has no identity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">open the page<br>there are no changes in<br>those prints<br>the letters still make<br>the command</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sentences end<br>in their usual paragraphs<br>in a new sense, <br>to signify a little difference<br>there shall be no periods, <br>as you notice<br>there are only commas, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is a meaning to this, <br>something in us always moves, continues, serrated, <br>double-edged sharpness of the mind <br>sometimes, a comma creates a sense of suspension, <br>like a bridge, a lull, a disbelief, <br>no one likes it, because everyone in us, trained as we were<br>in schools with always in mind<br>completions, and endings, we, do hate, incomplete returns<br>like a rumor with nothing definite as to <br>what happened to the<br>subject, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the scene is frozen, nothing thaws it, <br>the word is hanging, the journey of the feeling is still at the middle<br>of the map, the red dot still unreached, <br>and there is no stopping and this precisely makes you breathless</div><div style="margin:10px 0">like you are having a swing, like you are<br>suspended in a rope still not well tightened, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">feel it, do not be horrified, just feel it, <br>precisely, this is the truth about our existence</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sword of Damocles up<br>and the gaping mouth of the abyss beneath<br>looking like <br>the more than sign in<br>basic mathematics</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the mouth of the <br>see you later alligator,</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=493749" data-title="The Alligator... de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="detach the cover the book is naked its face is blanked it has no identity open the page there are no changes in those prints the letters still make the command the sentences end in their usual paragraphs in a new sense, to signify a little diff..."></div> </div> </div>

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