<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=551215" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ecstatic Truth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What bedtime stories<br>Will you choose for your children<br>To knock them back<br>Into the poppies to sleep, <br>My pretties, <br>To send them snoozing<br>From their overfed <br>Satanic Paradise <br>Caged in a middle-class house<br>Sequestered by a manicured<br>Golf-course<br>Locked with a gate code<br>The nitric oxide allaying fears<br>Into the briefest of<br>Sugar-coated comas? <br>Certainly not the vulgar<br>Hypocrisy of your <br>Communist youth—<br>That the man you first loved, <br>Which was I, <br>Is not their father, <br>Nor is the next one<br>(The stranger you left me for) : <br>But the third one, <br>You assure them: <br>You are rather sure he is their father.<br>The ecstatic truth<br>That you can never <br>Explain to them, <br>The poetic justice you fear: <br>That a homeless man, <br>A breathless copse of shedding limbs<br>In the croaking gutter, <br>Maggots vortexing a writhing sea<br>In his swollen liver, <br>Has more glow of deity<br>In him than <br>Their poor, <br>Well-kept mother.</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=551215" data-title="Ecstatic Truth de Bret R. Crabrooke" data-description="What bedtime stories Will you choose for your children To knock them back Into the poppies to sleep, My pretties, To send them snoozing From their overfed Satanic Paradise Caged in a middle-class house Sequestered by a manicured Golf-course Lo..."></div> </div> </div>

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