<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=554545" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>GREEN, A Litany</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">green in the midst of drab desolation<br>green ‘til the tide in the street overflows<br>green that preserves green's green reputation<br>green behind curtains, like cellist & bow</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>green on occasions no green is permissible<br>green by inversion a negative flame<br>green in final disgrace & dismissal<br>green where the gravedigger shoulders his spade</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>green like the walls of Verlaine's Belgium prison<br>green woods, wolf & poet meeting on equal foot<br>green like embroidery on old smoking-jackets<br>covered with needlepoint dragons & soot</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>green like a murderer gone to the guillotine<br>green like the lawns of this land breaking through<br>our windows in herbicide frenzy to taunt us<br>green like the tarnish on brass tiger shoes</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>green the result of choice or of chance<br>green when the famished, the hopeful despair<br>green that we have no hope of outguessing<br>green for which always we must be prepared<br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jay+Mandeville">Jay Mandeville</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=554545" data-title="GREEN, A Litany de Jay Mandeville" data-description="green in the midst of drab desolation green ‘til the tide in the street overflows green that preserves green's green reputation green behind curtains, like cellist & bow green on occasions no green is permissible green by inversion a negative ..."></div> </div> </div>

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