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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460671" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0201 Two skins, one thick, one thin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460671" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">No, don’t open that door. Don’t try.<br>It’s locked anyway. Or should be. Some people say<br>it’s worse than seeing their first dead body<br>half dead half alive, they never quite forget it.<br>Me I’m used to them. Them? Well OK, <br>I shan’t let you look but I’ll tell you.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460671" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">It’s my two body suits.<br>Thin skin, thick skin.<br>When I go out in the thin skin<br>life’s more exciting but god it’s tiring.<br>A trip on public transport and I come back finished.<br>I see things, feel things rather, that are scary.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460671" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I see people’s next lives they’re creating for themselves.<br>There’s this blind school round the corner; <br>I saw them all on the station platform once and I could see<br>those who were going to see properly, next time, <br>those who were making themselves blinder…<br>then next day I saw an ordinary ‘seeing’ man talking to a friend<br>without using his eyes, just dead ahead…how could I tell him? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460671" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Another time, I sat next to a man<br>who looked as if he’d slept rough<br>but the scary thing was, he was giving off such intense heat<br>that I knew sure as sure, he’d just murdered somebody…<br>I never knew that was a clue…</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460671" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I see everybody’s perfection and their present self<br>simultaneously. You might think it’s wonderful.<br>Yes and no. Not when you’re wearing your thin skin.<br>Yes, of course it’s great for poetry…that’s why<br>I bought it, why I wear it.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460671" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The thick skin’s for business, interviews, being fired, <br>the Editor’s office, the dentist, the doctor, <br>the mother-in-law, the footfall<br>in the dark alley, all the times you just<br>want to be tough, insensitive, eff the lot of them, <br>guess I don’t need to list all that? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460671" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And yes, sometimes you can go out in the wrong one.<br>A friend tells you of some awful family disaster<br>and you think, thick-skinned, well that’s their problem, <br>let them sort it out… and hate yourself for even thinking it.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460671" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Or someone looks at you on the wrong day<br>like you’re looking at me now, <br>sorta disbelieving, disgusted and pitying..<br>gotta go. Seeyerlater.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a></strong></div>