<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=555475" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>He Feels The Time Is Ripe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where many do live for local renown<br>The ageing fringe dweller in the old country town<br>Has never played football with the local club<br>And always drinks on his own when he is in the pub.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since he does not talk about the local club's latest loss or win<br>He remains an outsider and does not fit in<br>Though he has lived here for ten years as an outsider he remain<br>The status of a local he has yet to attain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He feels a decade of his life enough to have spent here<br>He will move to the bigger town early next year<br>This not a town for one such as he an artist and a talented man<br>More suited to a footballer or a football fan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the old country town he does not have a friend<br>And his stay in the place is coming to an end<br>In his early to mid fifties his best days long gone<br>And he feels the time is ripe for him to move on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=555475" data-title="He Feels The Time Is Ripe de Francis Duggan" data-description="Where many do live for local renown The ageing fringe dweller in the old country town Has never played football with the local club And always drinks on his own when he is in the pub. Since he does not talk about the local club's latest loss or w..."></div> </div> </div>

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