<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=497857" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Writing At That Time When You Were Sick...or Dying</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">when you write<br>when you are sick and having fever throughout the night<br>there is no one beside you<br>there is no electricity, and there is a storm raging on your roof<br>the house is shaking</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you feel that in a short while this house will be blown away<br>and you just do not know what happens in mid-air</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when you write these lines<br>you hear voices asking for help as though they are buried by the waves<br>twirled and taken to the bottom of that deep and dark ocean<br>some bodies<br>of children and women<br>some still holding each others' hands<br>lay dead beside the black corrals and the sea porcupines and urchins</div><div style="margin:10px 0">finally, you are carried by this horror<br>your body shakes in terror like the house shaking its beams and walls in mid-air<br>you give up the pen<br>let go off the paper<br>you give up that consciousness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">what you have and what you are now<br>is air, <br>strangled like a throat<br>all breaths finally<br>sucked<br>in a vacuum</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=497857" data-title="Writing At That Time When You Were Sick...or Dying de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="when you write when you are sick and having fever throughout the night there is no one beside you there is no electricity, and there is a storm raging on your roof the house is shaking you feel that in a short while this house will be blown away ..."></div> </div> </div>

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