<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577901" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Purple World</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If all of a peacock was purple <br>It would be a star—<br>No cerulean or evergreen—<br>No place for<br>Mermaids to admire it—<br>Purple fanning underneath the sun, <br>Showing all of the tourists—<br>All of the housewives that he is<br>A man—maybe if they could love<br>Through an everyday metamorphosis, <br>They would wish upon him—<br>To feed him popcorn<br>And to make love to him—<br>The usual hijinks between the orchards<br>And the highways—in the singing<br>Prisons where they they—<br>But it is not possible for them to think of<br>Him as anything else than a peacock, <br>Even if all of purpled fanned—<br>Though he is more beautiful than them—<br>And at night, <br>After the busses leave the animals naked<br>Underneath the heartthrob heavens, <br>He will count dreams to himself in <br>His purple world—<br>Think of all of the women he could have<br>Married—<br>If he were not only a peacock, a star in<br>The purple world.</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=577901" data-title="The Purple World de Bret R. Crabrooke" data-description="If all of a peacock was purple It would be a star— No cerulean or evergreen— No place for Mermaids to admire it— Purple fanning underneath the sun, Showing all of the tourists— All of the housewives that he is A man—maybe if they could..."></div> </div> </div>

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