<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=554040" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Glass of Absinthe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">No use pleading anymore at the dawn, <br>The waved-off world gone disastrous with time. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Decisions are uncomfortable <br>In this atmosphere. Valves drain, raise ballad—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Measures pound to flaked light, sun astride <br>Iron lace of railing on Royal Street—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scrolled into oak leaves, acorns, sad long horns <br>In day shadows—urinal, late coffee. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are restorations of ruined night, <br>But no beacon in our silver hours. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A life shaped by digressions: Linger long <br>Enough, and death itself loses the way to us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She seems drunk but is not, her white skirt striped <br>With black from a fall on wet cobblestones.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing is nimble. There is no good news. <br>She lights a small cigarette. She nods off. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She knots up and moves on. The horns stop, sprawl, <br>Speed up. Snares salvo again in new dark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ernest+Hilbert">Ernest Hilbert</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=554040" data-title="Glass of Absinthe de Ernest Hilbert" data-description="No use pleading anymore at the dawn, The waved-off world gone disastrous with time. Decisions are uncomfortable In this atmosphere. Valves drain, raise ballad— Measures pound to flaked light, sun astride Iron lace of railing on Royal Stree..."></div> </div> </div>

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