<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=496209" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To All The Disciples Of Pain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">come to me, for i will be your teacher<br>of pain, and lots of its kinds, <br>nuances and<br>variations, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">come to me and i will teach you<br>how to dissect pain<br>identify its flesh and bones<br>muscle to muscle<br>cartilage to cartilage<br>nerve to nerve<br>to the tiniest cell of this pain<br>in all of us</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we study this pain<br>we learn what is it really<br>this pain, like the way how we dissected the<br>frog nailed before us still alive<br>numbed & dead in chloroform</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we see how the frog breathes<br>how we skin it how we see how it ceases<br>to have pain </div><div style="margin:10px 0">after all is done<br>we throw the frog away in some trash can<br>after we have deprived it of its skeleton<br>bleached like a blank stare</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we ask ourselves how do we <br> look at it eye to eye<br>without pity<br>as we prick it with a long shining needle<br>deep to its backbone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then we remember<br>how pain dissipated in strong chloroform<br>how we ourselves inflicted it<br>without any feeling at all</div><div style="margin:10px 0">now shall we blame ourselves <br>having pain ourselves when we ourselves love to inflict them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in frogs in mankind in the person that we also claim to love?</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=496209" data-title="To All The Disciples Of Pain de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="come to me, for i will be your teacher of pain, and lots of its kinds, nuances and variations, come to me and i will teach you how to dissect pain identify its flesh and bones muscle to muscle cartilage to cartilage nerve to nerve to the tinies..."></div> </div> </div>

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