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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436805" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Appreciate Their Teachings</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many today are discovering, <br>The ease their introduction to poverty has become.<br>Some of us already experienced with its effects, <br>Thought of poverty as a prerequisite to upper mobility.<br>When people of a 'certain' class were living, <br>Right across the street.<br>Just before the terms minority and ghetto were popularized.<br>And poverty was 'NOT' a fast fall from greed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We seemed to have never qualified for anything back then.<br>But sympathetic looks and eyes cast down...<br>From those with turned up noses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That was a long yesterday ago though.<br>But today, <br>Greed has become the 'boss'.<br>People have falsified qualifiers, <br>Just based on them knowing how to use a pen.<br>To sign documents eventually forged to approve a loan.<br>I couldn't make this up if I wanted to.<br>Too much of this is factual.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And people are up in arms, <br>About a downward credit rating...<br>That puts a smudge on their pretentions.<br>And that hole they have dugged deep...<br>Will take a hundred years to plug.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many today are discovering, <br>The ease their introduction to poverty has become.<br>Some of us already experienced with its effects, <br>Thought of poverty as a prerequisite to upper mobility.<br>And not a fast fall from greed.<br>We seemed to have never qualified for anything back then.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I remember those who now crawl on their knees, <br>Use to say to my family and me...<br>Back in the day of our struggles, <br>How unfortunate 'we' were with their sarcasms.<br>Today I look at 'these' people and purposely buy a can of beans, <br>With a slowing of an opening done...<br>To then eat the beans in their honor.<br>Expressing a blessed thankfulness for having people like 'them'...<br>To realize how much I appreciate their teachings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maybe they will...<br>'Get off their lazy ignorant butts and find a job.'</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=436805" data-title="I Appreciate Their Teachings de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Many today are discovering, The ease their introduction to poverty has become. Some of us already experienced with its effects, Thought of poverty as a prerequisite to upper mobility. When people of a 'certain' class were living, Right across t..."></div> </div> </div>
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