<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=435355" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fading Standards</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Preferences to feast, <br>Decrease.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many admit that theirs...<br>Have long ago ceased.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some have minimized, <br>And selected a few treasures to keep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While those who thought they had many choices...<br>Try to hide themselves! <br>With collected assets they own, <br>Behind them dragged.<br>In plastic bags! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or carried with embarrassment, <br>From under bridges or street corners.<br>Looking disheveled and in lament.<br>To blend in fast...<br>With fading standards.<br>Bearing college degrees but can't pay rent! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As they mingle and stand with others...<br>Today! <br>Victims of a way of life, <br>From them taken away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But it was just yesterday, <br>It seems.<br>They had sat in comfort and laughing.<br>Believing their selfishness would last.<br>But, <br>Mock no more or jokes to tell they do...<br>Not! <br>As they sit in sadness...<br>Amongst those same folks, <br>They once called trash! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As they once drove from their suburban nests...<br>To come to squeeze the life from those, <br>Barely surviving on urban city blocks! <br>Who knew those times...<br>Would for them suddenly stop? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Did you...? <br>Mister and Missus Whiffenpoofer? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Okay! <br>Listen up! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Clairemonts, Duponts and Jones.<br>Here are your uniforms and brooms.<br>We are commencing our 'Civic Pride Project'.<br>Come...<br>There is much to be done.<br>Too much to clean...<br>To sit and look stunned! <br>And Mister and Missus Whiffenpoofer, <br>That applies to you too! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All uniforms issued...<br>Are the color blue! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do not concern yourselves, <br>With 'those' eating and feeding.<br>You will see them later.<br>We have hired them as our guides, <br>To introduce you to the fundamentals of 'Street Cred'.<br>Short for 'reality' check! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are professional.<br>We made sure to secure the best.<br>And of course...<br>Insure their happiness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Follow me! <br>To the 'change' we all can believe in! '</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=435355" data-title="Fading Standards de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Preferences to feast, Decrease. Many admit that theirs... Have long ago ceased. Some have minimized, And selected a few treasures to keep. While those who thought they had many choices... Try to hide themselves! With collected assets they ow..."></div> </div> </div>

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