<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=520826" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Doldrums</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ashen faces flood the street.<br>Change abounds so much so that its retreat<br>Is lauded & called the doldrums.<br>Hernan Cortez facilitated pogroms, <br>A sacking that gave Spain a brand new fleet<br>Of towering masts & enemies to meet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Warfare now has become as well an ashen face, <br>Rivals to the east & an unknown west.<br>Unkempt maniacs with plots fooling plots<br>Is all they shall get-<br>There being no maker to meet; <br>No invisible virgins replete; <br>No sultry shores of whinnying sands.<br>The can look forward to no thing-<br>No thing but bandages on their heads & their hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rest of us die for no visible cause, as well: <br>Food, family, shelter, flag, <br>Santa Claus.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Stan+Petrovich">Stan Petrovich</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=520826" data-title="The Doldrums de Stan Petrovich" data-description="Ashen faces flood the street. Change abounds so much so that its retreat Is lauded & called the doldrums. Hernan Cortez facilitated pogroms, A sacking that gave Spain a brand new fleet Of towering masts & enemies to meet. Warfare now has become ..."></div> </div> </div>

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