<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509853" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sidekicks</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were never handsome and often came<br>with a hormone imbalance manifested by corpulence,<br>a yodel of a voice or ears big as kidneys.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But each was brave. More than once a sidekick<br>has thrown himself in front of our hero in order<br>to receive the bullet or blow meant for that<br>perfect face and body.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thankfully, heroes never die in movies and leave<br>the sidekick alone. He would not stand for it.<br>Gabby or Pat, Pancho or Andy remind us of a part<br>of ourselves,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the dependent part that can never grow up,<br>the part that is painfully eager to please,<br>always wants a hug and never gets enough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who could sit in a darkened theatre, listen<br>to the organ music and watch the best<br>of ourselves lowered into the ground while<br>the rest stood up there, tears pouring off<br>that enormous nose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ronald+Koertge">Ronald Koertge</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=509853" data-title="Sidekicks de Ronald Koertge" data-description="They were never handsome and often came with a hormone imbalance manifested by corpulence, a yodel of a voice or ears big as kidneys. But each was brave. More than once a sidekick has thrown himself in front of our hero in order to receive the bu..."></div> </div> </div>

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