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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509917" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Thirteen Blackbirds Looking at a Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is calm.<br>It is as though<br>we lived in a garden<br>that had not yet arrived<br>at the knowledge of<br>good and evil.<br>But there is a man in it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There will be<br>rain falling vertically<br>from an indifferent<br>sky. There will stare out<br>from behind its<br>bars the face of the man<br>who is not enjoying it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing higher<br>than a blackberry<br>bush. As the sun comes up<br>fresh, what is the darkness<br>stretching from horizon<br>to horizon? It is the shadow<br>here of the forked man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have eaten<br>the blackberries and spat out<br>the seeds, but they lie<br>glittering like the eyes of a man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After we have stopped<br>singing, the garden is disturbed<br>by echoes. It is<br>the man whistling, expecting<br>everything to come to him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We wipe our beaks<br>on the branches<br>wasting the dawn's<br>jewellery to get rid<br>of the taste of a man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nevertheless,<br>which is not the case<br>with a man, our<br>bills give us no trouble.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who said the<br>number was unlucky?<br>It was a man, who,<br>trying to pass us,<br>had his licence endorsed<br>thirteen times.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IX</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the cool<br>of the day the garden<br>seems given over<br>to blackbirds. Yet<br>we know also that somewhere<br>there is a man in hiding.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">X</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To us there are<br>eggs and there are<br>blackbirds. But there is the man,<br>too, trying without feathers<br>to incubate a solution.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We spread our<br>wings, reticulating<br>our air space. A man stands<br>under us and worries<br>at his ability to do the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When night comes<br>like a visitor<br>from outer space<br>we stop our ears<br>lest we should hear tell<br>of the man in the moon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Summer is<br>at an end. The migrants<br>depart. When they return<br>in spring to the garden,<br>will there be a man among them?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ronald+Stuart+Thomas">Ronald Stuart Thomas</a><div class=q>
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It is calm.
It is as though
we lived in a garden
that had not yet arrived
at the knowledge of
good and evil.
But there is a man in it.

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There will be
rain falling vertically
from an indifferent
sky. There will stare out
from behind its
bars..."></div>
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