<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438668" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Less Eccentric But Thoughtfully Provocative</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Remembering those first decisions, <br>I had made for myself...<br>I can now admit to feeling awkward then.<br>I had no elder sibling to follow.<br>I was the oldest child in my clan.<br>And I noticed with me several experiments began.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was expected to 'know' before I knew a thing.<br>I was expected to 'grow'...<br>To show my sister, Mimmie 'everything'.<br>And she knew she got the short end of the stick.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You don't know what your're doing! <br>Do you? '<br>~Shut up! I'm two years older than you...<br>LITTLE girl.~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She hated me for that.<br>And I didn't care.<br>I hated we both were in that trap! <br>Of that I was young and too aware.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I made many mistakes! <br>I didn't know what I was doing.<br>The first born of a crew, <br>Is often blamed for what the other kids do! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when I knew this was going to be my fate, <br>I flew! <br>Or I thought I could...<br>By taking a swan drive from the nest! <br>I had just turned 18...<br>When I joined the military.<br>Never again to say I was bored to death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It took me years to land on my feet.<br>Since I kept knocking my head, <br>Against many tests I objected to in protest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Remembering those first decisions, <br>I had made for myself...<br>I can now admit to feeling awkward then.<br>I had no elder sibling to follow.<br>I was the oldest child in my clan.<br>And I noticed with me several experiments began.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even to this day I look for ways, <br>To be daring and more outrageous.<br>Although I like to perceive my actions to be, <br>Less eccentric but thoughtfully provocative! <br>And proud to say I am courageous.</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=438668" data-title="Less Eccentric But Thoughtfully Provocative de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Remembering those first decisions, I had made for myself... I can now admit to feeling awkward then. I had no elder sibling to follow. I was the oldest child in my clan. And I noticed with me several experiments began. I was expected to 'know' b..."></div> </div> </div>

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