<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527656" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Altercation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He altercated <br>with Mrs Orbeck <br>on the stairs. <br>Something to do </div><div style="margin:10px 0">with him <br>sneaking women <br>into his room at night. <br>None of your business </div><div style="margin:10px 0">if I do, he’d said. <br>But it was of course, <br>written into the tenant’s <br>agreement he’d signed </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the year before <br>when he’d been desperate <br>and she seemed nice. <br>I will not have </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that kind of women <br>in this house of mine, <br>she’d boomed, rattling <br>the rafters, shaking </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the windows in their frames. <br>He noticed as she spoke <br>a thin fine moustache <br>on her upper lip </div><div style="margin:10px 0">where sweat seemed <br>to have gathered <br>threatening to jump<br>like some weary suicide</div><div style="margin:10px 0">on the lip’s edge.<br>He promised her <br>he’d not have that <br>kind of women </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in his room again. <br>She wiped her upper lip <br>to remove the sweat. <br>He thought her an ass, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">she thought him a pain.<br>They never had (about <br>women at any rate) <br>an altercation again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terry+Collett">Terry Collett</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=527656" data-title="Altercation de Terry Collett" data-description="He altercated with Mrs Orbeck on the stairs. Something to do with him sneaking women into his room at night. None of your business if I do, he’d said. But it was of course, written into the tenant’s agreement he’d signed the y..."></div> </div> </div>

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