<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529046" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Papa's Waltz</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The whiskey on your breath <br>Could make a small boy dizzy; <br>But I hung on like death: <br>Such waltzing was not easy. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We romped until the pans <br>Slid from the kitchen shelf; <br>My mother's countenance <br>Could not unfrown itself. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hand that held my wrist <br>Was battered on one knuckle; <br>At every step you missed <br>My right ear scraped a buckle. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You beat time on my head <br>With a palm caked hard by dirt, <br>Then waltzed me off to bed <br>Still clinging to your shirt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Theodore+Roethke">Theodore Roethke</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=529046" data-title="My Papa's Waltz de Theodore Roethke" data-description="The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my ..."></div> </div> </div>

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