<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=434478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Diminishing In Effect</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Isn't it odd, <br>That those losing jobs...<br>And valued things once possessed.<br>Are those more stressed, <br>About keeping up their appearances.<br>And pretensions that are diminishing in effect.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Few are concerned about realities to embrace.<br>Than they are about those impressions made.<br>And how to keep them in place.<br>And for many, <br>This is a traumatic undertaking.<br>That threatens their affectations.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What am I going to do now? <br>Even the 'Joneses' next door have been foreclosed.<br>And my entire life, <br>Depended on their approval.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Isn't it odd, <br>That those losing jobs...<br>And valued things once possessed.<br>Are those more stressed, <br>About keeping up their appearances.<br>And pretensions that are diminishing in effect.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the only response one can expect from them to get, <br>Is a wish for an economic turn around...<br>To repeat those steps that got them into debt.<br>With a protection of those pretensions, <br>That are diminishing in effect.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</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=434478" data-title="Diminishing In Effect de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Isn't it odd, That those losing jobs... And valued things once possessed. Are those more stressed, About keeping up their appearances. And pretensions that are diminishing in effect. Few are concerned about realities to embrace. Than they are a..."></div> </div> </div>

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