<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519066" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>It Ain't What You Do, It's What It Does To You</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have not bummed across America<br>with only a dollar to spare, one pair<br>of busted Levi's and a bowie knife.<br>I have lived with thieves in Manchester.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have not padded through the Taj Mahal,<br>barefoot, listening to the space between<br>each footfall picking up and putting down<br>its print against the marble floor. But I</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>skimmed flat stones across Black Moss on a day<br>so still I could hear each set of ripples<br>as they crossed. I felt each stone's inertia<br>spend itself against the water; then sink. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have not toyed with a parachute cord<br>while perched on the lip of a light-aircraft;<br>but I held the wobbly head of a boy<br>at the day centre, and stroked his fat hands. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I guess that the tightness in the throat<br>and the tiny cascading sensation<br>somewhere inside us are both part of that<br>sense of something else. That feeling, I mean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Simon+Armitage">Simon Armitage</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=519066" data-title="It Ain't What You Do, It's What It Does To You de Simon Armitage" data-description="I have not bummed across America with only a dollar to spare, one pair of busted Levi's and a bowie knife. I have lived with thieves in Manchester. I have not padded through the Taj Mahal, barefoot, listening to the space between each footfall pi..."></div> </div> </div>

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