<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=541910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Boat Is a Lever</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">After my student went to the doctor to<br>Check out the rash speckling his<br>Right hand and found out he had<br>Leukemia, that the cancer had spread<br>Into his lungs, then where did he go?<br>I've called his number several times.<br>Flat-bottom boats light in water.<br>Brown brack and mud smell,<br>Stumps like chewed-off candles,<br>Cypress knees, knock and small<br>Talk floating over water, a motor<br>Chuffing off, a small blue cloud of excess<br>Gasoline spreads an ugly<br>Rainbow on tan water.Every<br>Thing rests on its proposition<br>Including smooth isobars along the bay.<br>Since collective thought cannot exist<br>As thought it passes into things.<br>Chemo takes a few gray hairs.Mustard<br>Cruises the bloodstream under a blizzard<br>Of white cells.Subdued by the arbitrary,<br>Suspended, the one in the boat still needs<br>To row it -- to direct the muscles, to<br>Maintain equilibrium with air<br>And water.If water is waveless<br>Then the boat reads by leading marks.<br>There is nothing more beautiful<br>Than a boat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ralph+Burns">Ralph Burns</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=541910" data-title="A Boat Is a Lever de Ralph Burns" data-description="After my student went to the doctor to Check out the rash speckling his Right hand and found out he had Leukemia, that the cancer had spread Into his lungs, then where did he go? I've called his number several times. Flat-bottom boats light in wat..."></div> </div> </div>

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