<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438102" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>It Is 'Them' I Am Trying To Protect</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not a ssshh...taker.<br>Cake baker.<br>Or a candlestick maker.<br>Nor am I one to ooze charm...<br>When my patience is tested, <br>By anyone thinking...<br>I'm an easy piece of meat to tease! <br>And there are folks in the world, <br>Who ask to be cussed out! <br>And...<br>I will oblige their requests.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I remember my Mom saying to me once, <br>'I don't care how strange you look.<br>I want my house cleaned when I come home.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My parents were direct! <br>I wish 911 was around, <br>When my father use to just look at me...<br>With those eyes he had! <br>He would freeze me in this stare he had.<br>And I could not move! <br>I almost enjoyed my mother's whippings...<br>Just to escape from my father's silent stare.<br>He never laid a hand on my sisters and I.<br>He didn't have to.<br>My mother on the other hand...<br>Unleashed her punishment, <br>Like a category 5 tornado! <br>She was strict, loving... <br>And a crier when she whipped us! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">~Why is she crying...again? <br>I'm the one in pain! ~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">**Ma, tell Larry to leave me alone! <br>He gettin' on my nerves.**</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~YOU...are going to spray some roaches! <br>And that's a promise! ~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">God helped me fulfill that dream already.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let's just say my childhood was just as dysfunctional, <br>As it was adventurous.<br>I was smoking and drinking with my parents, <br>When I was ten years old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~Ma, did Daddy buy us any Budweiser? ~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'No! But there is some Manichevitz in the icebox.<br>And this time leave some for your sister! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~...hmph! ~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We were 'special' children! <br>At least Reverand Branch thought so! <br>He had been the minister at Union Baptist Church.<br>That place is a different story.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not a ssshh...taker.<br>Cake baker.<br>Or a candlestick maker.<br>Nor am I one to ooze charm...<br>When my patience is tested, <br>By anyone thinking...<br>I'm an easy piece of meat to tease! <br>And there are folks in the world, <br>Who ask to be cussed out! <br>And...<br>I will oblige their requests.<br>Since they have no idea...<br>It is 'them' I am trying to protect.<br>And I do the best I can to chill, <br>Before any explosion occurs!</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=438102" data-title="It Is 'Them' I Am Trying To Protect de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I am not a ssshh...taker. Cake baker. Or a candlestick maker. Nor am I one to ooze charm... When my patience is tested, By anyone thinking... I'm an easy piece of meat to tease! And there are folks in the world, Who ask to be cussed out! And....."></div> </div> </div>

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