<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=496416" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Today I Shall Remember Grandmother</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">she knows what fine clothes are<br>and how jewelries are worn<br>and shown on special occasions<br>she knows what parties fit<br>for congressman as guest<br>or the mayor of the city with <br>their first ladies liking the<br>food and dances and socializing<br>in the big, old house</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the symbol of her peak times<br>when her name rings<br>when her social graces <br>are accepted as rules</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i guess she likes the shape<br>of my face, the color of my<br>skin, the way my hair curl<br>the bridge of my nose<br>the sharp blades of my shoulders</div><div style="margin:10px 0">she handpicked me away<br>from mother, whom she despised<br>as a woman without culture<br>and taste, she brought me like<br>the son of a man with class<br>and gave me language and<br>pride and disgust for the <br>ordinary and the nonsensical</div><div style="margin:10px 0">away from mother inside<br>my room of comfort and style<br>it was sad and tragic and something<br>that i cannot forget and which i </div><div style="margin:10px 0">too despised, and from then on<br>i think i learned what hatred is</div><div style="margin:10px 0">my first lesson of a family feud<br>the fight between mothers and <br>daughters-in-law and the grandson<br>caught in between wanting to breathe</div><div style="margin:10px 0">run away and thinking things all over again</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=496416" data-title="Today I Shall Remember Grandmother de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="she knows what fine clothes are and how jewelries are worn and shown on special occasions she knows what parties fit for congressman as guest or the mayor of the city with their first ladies liking the food and dances and socializing in the big, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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