<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=558608" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>If She Does</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We’ve got in pumpkins-<br>Entire bins of pumpkins- and my job today<br>Was to kill the ants, <br>And think of something: <br>And this really beautiful mother came in today-<br>She looked like someone’s sister.<br>She looked like she’d played soccer in high school.<br>Then a man came in with gold teeth, <br>And I think he made a comment about my face<br>Under his breath-<br>I shouldn’t like to think what he had to say, <br>But I know he was Italian and a painter<br>And from New York, <br>But definitely not an artist, <br>And I was glad when he went away, <br>And after he went away I thought again of myself as<br>An artist<br>Who must try and look at his face from the sunburned<br>Shadows from the best possible angles <br>And try to make the best of it, <br>And be happy that that beautiful young mother came in<br>And asked my name, <br>And said that she would be back to buy a Christmas tree.<br>If she comes, then I’ll have to find out her name, <br>And see if she doesn’t want to ride bicycles near the sea: <br>If she does it will be the first time I’ve been with a woman<br>In seven years, <br>And the very first time I’ve been with a beautiful woman<br>Not counting a couple prostitutes<br>If she does.</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=558608" data-title="If She Does de Bret R. Crabrooke" data-description="We’ve got in pumpkins- Entire bins of pumpkins- and my job today Was to kill the ants, And think of something: And this really beautiful mother came in today- She looked like someone’s sister. She looked like she’d played soccer in high sc..."></div> </div> </div>

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