<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=543333" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A pure white poem and empty shops</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I asked a dog-walker for the short cut<br>to the local centre shop.<br>She told me 'Walk to the village green<br>then turn right. A skip and a hop.'<br>'Thank you' I said, unknowingly<br>that the village green WASN'T green..<br>Everything was blanketed in a coat of snow, <br>it was WHITE where the green had been! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I followed the tracks and got to the shop<br>where crowds were milling about lost.<br>The bread and eggs they were looking for<br>could not be bought at any cost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shelves were bare, reminded me<br>of reports I'd seen on the telly.<br>Thirds World countries, very little food, <br>youngsters with hunger-swollen bellies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah well, it's pasta for me tonight<br>and tomorrow again, no doubt.<br>Those tomatoes in cans will be useful and, I expect, <br>the tin of beans will eke it out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francesca+Johnson">Francesca Johnson</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=543333" data-title="A pure white poem and empty shops de Francesca Johnson" data-description="I asked a dog-walker for the short cut to the local centre shop. She told me 'Walk to the village green then turn right. A skip and a hop.' 'Thank you' I said, unknowingly that the village green WASN'T green.. Everything was blanketed in a coat of..."></div> </div> </div>

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