<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=550843" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Down Their Awful Hall</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are my secret prejudice <br>I haven’t yet found a way to give up: <br>I don’t believe you actually love the<br>Human race, <br>But you sup right beneath the football <br>Coliseum; <br>It would be better if you more appreciated <br>Baseball, <br>But your hair is so perfectly auburn.<br>Listen to the way it swings, <br>Back and forth like an unhurried sea.<br>Even in your coffin it should swing that way.<br>You are like the titillating prize at the bottom<br>Of a crackerjack box, <br>The very thing I used to drive to Miami with<br>My father for deep after midnight, <br>To get my fingers sticky, <br>To populate my soul, <br>To watch the winos basking against the fire drums; <br>But the prizes are getting cheaper, <br>And night after night it gets so cold; <br>I know you have never really loved me, <br>But how can any woman really love me, <br>Especially the sea, or my venal muse; <br>When it is only the interlude between seventh period and<br>Halftime, <br>Though the traffic never abates; <br>It comes like rain, or like my fingers, <br>The way they would like to fall through your fingers; <br>But they don’t know you at all, <br>And now they pause to smoke and listen<br>As your echoes fade down their awful hall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bret+R.+Crabrooke">Bret R. Crabrooke</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=550843" data-title="Down Their Awful Hall de Bret R. Crabrooke" data-description="You are my secret prejudice I haven’t yet found a way to give up: I don’t believe you actually love the Human race, But you sup right beneath the football Coliseum; It would be better if you more appreciated Baseball, But your hair is s..."></div> </div> </div>

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