<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=582502" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>WHAT FOLKS DID(for Lyn)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was born<br>into a world</div><div style="margin:10px 0">without telephone...television<br>motor car or aeroplane</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“all the damn modern things”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">she never did get used to<br>even when they invidiously invaded her life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even now<br>in her little one room flat</div><div style="margin:10px 0">at the end of her life<br>she berates the telephone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“It just rings and...rings! ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She loudly complains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“And that’s why I don’t answer the thing! ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“It won’t...leave me alone! ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ask her<br>with laughter</div><div style="margin:10px 0">what did folks do</div><div style="margin:10px 0">without these things</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how did they get by.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“What did folks do? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She sighs <br>as if telling a child: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“We used to...love one another! ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=D%C3%B3nall+Dempsey">Dónall Dempsey</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=582502" data-title="WHAT FOLKS DID(for Lyn) de Dónall Dempsey" data-description="She was born into a world without telephone...television motor car or aeroplane “all the damn modern things” she never did get used to even when they invidiously invaded her life. Even now in her little one room flat at the end of her lif..."></div> </div> </div>

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