You hear it said at <br />the oddest times and in <br />the strangest places <br /> <br />often with a knife-blade at <br />your chest or <br />a thumb expertly on <br />your wind-pipe or <br />a hand itching towards <br />a holster or the belt of jeans <br /> <br />nobody tells me what to do <br /> <br />seldom are the crime, <br />self-knowledge <br />and the remedy put <br />so succinctly <br />together<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-foolish-verges-on-the-wise/
