<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=435004" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Enactments</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that their feelings of betrayal...<br>And being disgruntled, <br>Have a rawness about it...<br>They believe there is a commonness, <br>Left to express those displeasures... <br>With those historically distressed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those they would normally regard as pests! <br>And that was just...<br>Yesterday! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With their duress confessed, <br>During these suppressed times...<br>They seem to quickly display, <br>A discomforting selfishness... <br>They wish would go away, <br>To unwind and leave behind.<br>Like keys left with the butler or maid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If not for temporary and sentimental reasons! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the times were good for them...<br>They would not be seen, <br>Appearing in daylight...<br>With 'those' disadvantaged on urban streets.<br>Exposing their faces on such scenes.<br>And rubbing shoulders, <br>With these 'underlings' they meet! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'These surroundings? <br>How gouache.<br>Tasteless.<br>And so unbecoming! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They would have ignored them, <br>As not being among those blessed! <br>They would have compared their separateness...<br>By comparing acquired materialism, <br>That kept them feeling falsely blessed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But somehow their current fellowship expressed, <br>Seems more like a pretentiousness hiding a desperation.<br>And spreading a shallow attempt, <br>To solicit empathy from those who can least afford it.<br>Those who know who 'they' are! <br>And why they have been kept by 'them' suppressed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those things they once had, <br>No longer provides the escape...<br>From their insecurities now exposed.<br>So they have 'chosen' to be amongst the poor.<br>To uplift a hollowness... <br>Left from a loneliness of an emptiness felt.<br>Somehow, <br>This can not be easily erased.<br>Or from them now to go ignored.<br>Or replaced...<br>As one awaits for delivered luggage, <br>To leave quickly a bad vacation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Especially when faces of a different hue...<br>Reminds them of a racistness they inflicted, <br>And kept in place to subdue...<br>In brutal disrespect.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who knew these times would be so stinging.<br>Leaving so many unprepared? <br>To unpack cares and fresh hints of concern.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now 'they' appear as if in research...<br>Seeking a way to find a comfort.<br>One that is not as demeaning as seen, <br>Or vividly portrayed...<br>By those who seem professional, <br>Recreating enactments placed upon them... <br>To do that poverty 'thing'<br>Done so well!</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=435004" data-title="Enactments de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Now that their feelings of betrayal... And being disgruntled, Have a rawness about it... They believe there is a commonness, Left to express those displeasures... With those historically distressed. Those they would normally regard as pests! ..."></div> </div> </div>

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