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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577699" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Penalties</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A beautiful loss <br>is still a loss, <br>a beautiful mistake<br>is still beautiful. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is the rules of the room<br>that still define you, <br>it is the things that we do on our own<br>that betray you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the council estate<br>to the London art squats <br>that fill in the textual background ~<br>feeling numerous<br>writing can be poisonous verse <br>almost plural<br>at your funeral. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your disparate profile networked in the window<br>like a ghost or a girlfriend, <br>marrying my widow <br>you looked stunning ~ to die for <br>to the end. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All that has been achieved <br>with your devotion<br>to your art<br>when I was your 9th symphony </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a beautiful loss is still a loss. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A day with nothing left in your body<br>bar mortuary and vestigials of heart<br>and a heightened sense of reality ~<br>it’s you and I <br>or nothing<br>is possible, probable, <br>everything in this moment<br>portent, can be lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The doctor said, <br>‘you had better take better care of your self’. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your dark suitors in their gowns and waistcoats <br>gave you such a tribute I almost lied. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pretending to know better, I for this matter <br>said let’s make a deal ~ </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will give up the writing and the vanity<br>and you give up the reading and the criticism. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For heaven’ sake ~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will be going soon to escape<br>via the light footprint, <br>the misfiring furies <br>in your head<br>the misguided voices <br>in our bed ~<br>foreign forces overhead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the crisis ~ <br>as we approach the middle eight, <br>all that remains is for us<br>to decide<br>the order of death. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">After you, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a terrible man <br>is still a man, <br>a terrible truth<br>is still terrible <br>because ~ </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a beautiful loss, <br>is still a loss<br>a beautiful mistake<br>is still beautiful.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(18th January 2011, from Englandcollapsed)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Denny">John Denny</a><div class=q>
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is still a loss, 
a beautiful mistake
is still beautiful. 

It is the rules of the room
that still define you, 
it is the things that we do on our own
that betray you.

From the council estate
to the London art squats 
that fill ..."></div>
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