<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524218" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Second Sting</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Woke up <br>to smell the roses </div><div style="margin:10px 0">cut myself <br>upon stem thorns <br>sharpened <br>protective preservation <br>selfishness </div><div style="margin:10px 0">bleeding blood bleeding life <br>life sustaining streams dripping </div><div style="margin:10px 0">sap risen barbs sharpen <br>hungering foliage continuance </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the scent of sweet roses <br>is but an alluring amorous bait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Lilies <br>colourless purchased puritans </div><div style="margin:10px 0">also have genetically <br>attained a deadened smell <br>in morgue slab meat <br>mannequin laid out funeral parlours </div><div style="margin:10px 0">fat rolled choice cigars <br>baked overdone luscious juicy joints </div><div style="margin:10px 0">will not <br>rise a redeemed Lazaus <br>to dropp dead a second time. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Lilies <br>are Victorian gowns </div><div style="margin:10px 0">neck tight collars <br>sudden yellow tongued <br>mesmeric eulogies <br>gossiping trumpeting </div><div style="margin:10px 0">bee buzzing sermons <br>curtained days death knelled</div><div style="margin:10px 0">behold new prone lay figure<br>subjugated judgments silently abound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Copyright © Terence George Craddock<br>John 12: 1-2. “Accordingly Jesus, six days before the Passover, arrived at Bethnay, where Lazarus was whom Jesus had risen up from the dead. Therefore they spread an evening meal for him there, and Martha was ministering, but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</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=524218" data-title="A Second Sting de Terence George Craddock" data-description="Woke up to smell the roses cut myself upon stem thorns sharpened protective preservation selfishness bleeding blood bleeding life life sustaining streams dripping sap risen barbs sharpen hungering foliage continuance the scent of sw..."></div> </div> </div>

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