<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=561218" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Liberty's Gal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Italian blood runs hot<br>Under coffee-colored African skin, <br>Through Vietnamese veins, fed<br>By a jackhammer Irish heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lithe Iranian hands<br>Guide a Swedish skirt<br>Across Parisian legs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Share an irreverent joke.<br>She laughs with the warmth of Canada.<br>Her Samoan smile comes easily.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ask and she'll join you in<br>A Brazilian toast, <br>A Vatican prayer, <br>Old Arabian verses<br>Or Norwegian song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Argue, if you like.<br>She is prone to opinions and forgiving of dissent.<br>Her Japanese adherence to honor<br>Is expressed with British civility.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She's used to disagreement, <br>And she'll answer back –<br>Greek logic and Chinese wisdom<br>Are equally at her command.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But don't touch her. Never arouse<br>Her Spanish temper.<br>Her German sense of purpose.<br>Her Russian tolerance for grief.<br>Her Colombian notions of vengeance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never arouse<br>Her Australian, white-knuckled toughness.<br>Her Native American will<br>To guard the dirt at her toes.<br>Her Puerto Rican sense<br>Of protection of kin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never arouse<br>Her Afghan memory, <br>Her Israeli flair for reprisal.<br>She's wont to undertake<br>A Mexican vendetta.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if aroused, nothing can deter her: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not illness in envelopes.<br>Not zealots in caves.<br>Not soot-colored cities or glass in the streets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not desert alchemy, <br>Or the asymmetric threat<br>Of a holocaust virus, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not the grimace of a gap-toothed skyline, <br>Or silence in engine-less skies<br>As vast iron birds – once as common as swallows –<br>Are felled to the ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eric+Nolan">Eric Nolan</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=561218" data-title="Liberty's Gal de Eric Nolan" data-description="Italian blood runs hot Under coffee-colored African skin, Through Vietnamese veins, fed By a jackhammer Irish heart. Lithe Iranian hands Guide a Swedish skirt Across Parisian legs. Share an irreverent joke. She laughs with the warmth of Canada...."></div> </div> </div>

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