<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507854" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>First Things to Hand</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the skull kept on the desk.<br>In the spider-pod in the dust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or nowhere. In milkmaids, in loaves,<br>Or nowhere. And if Socrates leaves</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His house in the morning,<br>When he returns in the evening</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He will find Socrates waiting<br>On the doorstep. Buddha the stick</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You use to clear the path,<br>And Buddha the dog-doo you flick</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Away with it, nowhere or in each<br>Several thing you touch:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dollar bill, the button<br>That works the television.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even in the joke, the three<br>Words American men say</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After making love. Where's <br>The remote? In the tears</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In things, proximate, intimate.<br>In the wired stem with root</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And leaf nowhere of this lamp:<br>Brass base, aura of illumination,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enlightenment, shade of grief.<br>Odor of the lamp, brazen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mind waiting in the mind<br>As in the first thing to hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Pinsky">Robert Pinsky</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=507854" data-title="First Things to Hand de Robert Pinsky" data-description="In the skull kept on the desk. In the spider-pod in the dust. Or nowhere. In milkmaids, in loaves, Or nowhere. And if Socrates leaves His house in the morning, When he returns in the evening He will find Socrates waiting On the doorstep. Buddha..."></div> </div> </div>

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