<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=528069" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Unwanted Wealth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the way home from school <br>you and Helen stopped </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and looked in the window <br>of the pie and eel shop </div><div style="margin:10px 0">where a man was cutting off heads <br>of live eels </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then slitting them open <br>and knifing out the guts </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then chopping them <br>up into small pieces </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and Helen said <br>yuk what's he doing </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to those poor eels? <br>you were engrossed in watching </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the man's knife slit through <br>the necks so easy </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that the pieces still wriggled <br>after he pushed them </div><div style="margin:10px 0">into a bucket on the side <br>people eat them </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you said <br>whether jellied </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or in pies <br>with mash and liquor </div><div style="margin:10px 0">horrible <br>Helen said </div><div style="margin:10px 0">how could they? <br>People will eat anything </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you replied <br>turning to gaze </div><div style="margin:10px 0">at her horrified face <br>her eyes magnified </div><div style="margin:10px 0">behind her thick lens spectacles <br>I read somewhere </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that some people ate others <br>in the Leningrad siege </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you added <br>she grabbed your hand </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and squeezed it tight <br>they never did </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you're lying <br>she said </div><div style="margin:10px 0">her eyes focused on you <br>and not the eels </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or the man executing them <br>you saw her lower lip tremble </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and said <br>ok they didn't </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you said softly <br>she looked back at the man </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the eels <br>and sighed </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and you felt her warm flesh<br>and her small thumb </div><div style="margin:10px 0">on the back of your hand <br>and although you knew </div><div style="margin:10px 0">what had happened <br>you lied to protect her </div><div style="margin:10px 0">from the truth <br>not wanting her innocence </div><div style="margin:10px 0">undone by brutal humanity <br>and its wars </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and you kept it <br>to your 9 year old self </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a whole bundle of facts <br>like an unwanted wealth.</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=528069" data-title="Unwanted Wealth de Terry Collett" data-description="On the way home from school you and Helen stopped and looked in the window of the pie and eel shop where a man was cutting off heads of live eels and then slitting them open and knifing out the guts and then chopping them up into smal..."></div> </div> </div>

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