<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=437733" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Those Old Days</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You may be tough.<br>But your approach to solicit, <br>My empathy and pity...<br>Could have been easier to get, <br>Without your demanding it.<br>But I do understand, <br>The competition you're up against.<br>And if I may make a suggestion...<br>You should put that gun away.<br>Since my first reaction, <br>Is not empathy with pity for you at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It isn't real.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which? <br>The gun? <br>Your wish for empathy and pity? <br>Or my fear? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Why can't you just co-operate, <br>And give me what I want? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trust me.<br>I'm going to give you exactly what you need.<br>Now that I know that gun isn't real.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The gun IS real.<br>My need for empathy and pity isn't.<br>Thank you.<br>All I wanted was a decent conversation.<br>You were the only one I spotted, <br>Not texting or using a cellphone.<br>You have no idea how difficult it is for me, <br>To communicate like I did in the old days.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So you are using a gun to do it? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Hey...<br>What can I say.<br>I'm open for your suggestions.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good.<br>Give me the gun.<br>And I'll show you what I would have done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What are you going to do? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Communicate my feelings, <br>Like I use to do in those old days.<br>And trust me...<br>You will know immediately, <br>Just what my feelings are.</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=437733" data-title="In Those Old Days de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="You may be tough. But your approach to solicit, My empathy and pity... Could have been easier to get, Without your demanding it. But I do understand, The competition you're up against. And if I may make a suggestion... You should put that gun a..."></div> </div> </div>

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