<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=497121" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What He Did</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">as law professor teaching civil and political law<br>he did not tell his students that he writes poems during some <br>breaks of their studies.<br>as the students hurdle a legal problem in marriage<br>he preoccupies himself with some images: an old weary man<br>carrying an ax, debarking a tree without leaves.<br>it can carry him far away to some hills in his mind.<br>clouds and storms dock on his forehead.<br>he shakes his head, and goes back to the legal words<br>right on the page of his book. Finds himself again, strong willed.<br>Astute. Wise. Objective. Sharp. <br>A student raises his hand and recites a solution the problem.<br>He listens and claps his hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The class is dismissed and he is left alone in the room<br>It is 8: 45 in the evening.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Images come again. The tree is finally cut. The barks turn into paper.<br>He knows now the cause of the decay. Some termites.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The old man is dead. Cut by the ax. The ax is gone.<br>Who did it? Why? <br>These are his mind games. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He opens the door of the car and begins to drive himself back home.<br>He has a poem to write again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is about that old man who died beside a tree that he debarked.<br>It is not more of the ax or termites.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is the tree. A tree without leaves. <br>A very lonely tree which is cut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is happy now.</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=497121" data-title="What He Did de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="as law professor teaching civil and political law he did not tell his students that he writes poems during some breaks of their studies. as the students hurdle a legal problem in marriage he preoccupies himself with some images: an old weary man ..."></div> </div> </div>

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