<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=550482" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dismissal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A child is not picked up after practice.<br>School is over. Nothing left but the<br>late afternoon, ungraded activities....<br>soccer, band, chess club. No more<br>expectations. Hangers-on have nothing to gain.<br>If you are not alone, its a fine time to talk.<br>Hallways are empty, dusty and echoing. A<br>locker around the corner bangs shut. A whistle<br>blows in the gym. The band butchers a door-muted<br>rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. <br>A young life is so many school days and they all<br>drain as slowly as a clogged sink. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forty years ago Jay and I had both read <br>'A Catcher In The Rye'. I cant even remember <br>Jay's last name, but he told me I reminded him <br>of Holden Caulfield and I am still flattered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Don+Tiedemann">Don Tiedemann</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=550482" data-title="Dismissal de Don Tiedemann" data-description="A child is not picked up after practice. School is over. Nothing left but the late afternoon, ungraded activities.... soccer, band, chess club. No more expectations. Hangers-on have nothing to gain. If you are not alone, its a fine time to talk. H..."></div> </div> </div>

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