<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=542832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Local Outsider</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To the local community he is not one of their own<br>And apart from them in every way he has grown<br>He does not share their interests of work, sports, small talk, drinking and football<br>In fact with them in common he has nothing at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He works in the big town some twenty miles away<br>But he returns to his home in the small town every day<br>Single in his mid twenties in the peak of his prime<br>And he does feel happy at least most of the time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A spiritual person and an artist at heart<br>In community meetings and projects he never takes part<br>He draws and sketches at night and his art readily sell<br>And as a hobby artist he is doing well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was born in the small town but it does seem sad to say<br>That as a local outsider he is destined to stay<br>Even with those he grew up with little in common he share<br>He is an endangered species and his type are rare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is not a student of sports or football<br>And who won last year's Grand Final he does not recall<br>And though his praises none of the other locals do sing<br>He is his own man and he does his own thing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=542832" data-title="A Local Outsider de Francis Duggan" data-description="To the local community he is not one of their own And apart from them in every way he has grown He does not share their interests of work, sports, small talk, drinking and football In fact with them in common he has nothing at all. He works in th..."></div> </div> </div>

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