<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529057" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Geranium</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,<br>She looked so limp and bedraggled,<br>So foolish and trusting, like a sick poodle,<br>Or a wizened aster in late September,<br>I brought her back in again<br>For a new routine--<br>Vitamins, water, and whatever<br>Sustenance seemed sensible<br>At the time: she'd lived<br>So long on gin, bobbie pins, half-smoked cigars, dead beer,<br>Her shriveled petals falling<br>On the faded carpet, the stale<br>Steak grease stuck to her fuzzy leaves.<br>(Dried-out, she creaked like a tulip.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The things she endured!--<br>The dumb dames shrieking half the night<br>Or the two of us, alone, both seedy,<br>Me breathing booze at her,<br>She leaning out of her pot toward the window.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Near the end, she seemed almost to hear me--<br>And that was scary--<br>So when that snuffling cretin of a maid<br>Threw her, pot and all, into the trash-can,<br>I said nothing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I sacked the presumptuous hag the next week,<br>I was that lonely.</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=529057" data-title="The Geranium de Theodore Roethke" data-description="When I put her out, once, by the garbage pail, She looked so limp and bedraggled, So foolish and trusting, like a sick poodle, Or a wizened aster in late September, I brought her back in again For a new routine-- Vitamins, water, and whatever Sust..."></div> </div> </div>

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