<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=494980" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Poem That Makes You Alive</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">from the office the paper works pile up<br>like a mountain where you walk only a few steps<br>where it is so steep <br>and you want to rest on the grass because you feel like <br>you are dying in a minute<br>and they understand why sometimes you have to stop<br>and get some air from the window facing the sea</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when you go home for lunch<br>with your wife<br>your shoulder hangs a little bit down<br>like a hanging plant from a branch of an old tree<br>your eyes are drooping<br>and you lose your appetite <br>not the food but for life itself<br>you have been doing things by compulsion<br>this bread and butter thing<br>this normal course<br>this work that is dictated upon us <br>society moves like a clockwork<br>office like a jail<br>the world like a cell to you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you keep your computer open<br>after lunch you sit in front of it again<br>punch the letters and tell the screen<br>this is my life<br>this could have been my work</div><div style="margin:10px 0">writing poems, this poem and the rest of the poems<br>this makes you alive<br>without milk without the cradle without the bottle</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=494980" data-title="The Poem That Makes You Alive de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="from the office the paper works pile up like a mountain where you walk only a few steps where it is so steep and you want to rest on the grass because you feel like you are dying in a minute and they understand why sometimes you have to stop and..."></div> </div> </div>

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