<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440309" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Often Tickled</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I feel you watching closely.<br>And ready to poke.<br>As if my presence, <br>Is under your microscope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too familiar have I been, <br>To those toothy grins zeroing in...<br>With needles and pins.<br>Attempting to prick, <br>What is perceived thick skin! <br>To judge if I am human.<br>Or if I can take what I am given...<br>Like a cushion that sits.<br>Without a feeling connected to it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if I should let critique, <br>Show it bothers me? <br>I'd be perceived as sensitive.<br>Like most 'creative' types are thought to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And...<br>You're not? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No.<br>Not necessarily.<br>But I do admit, <br>I am often tickled.<br>By displays of thoughtlessness.<br>And In public I laugh.<br>Sometimes in private I giggle.<br>Since the attention I'm given, <br>Validates some success.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And doing 'something' with longevity? <br>That achieves the curiosity from others I get? <br>I can't help but feel both blessed and amused.<br>Since I love to tease those who probe, <br>Who believe I'm easy to disturb and upset.</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=440309" data-title="Often Tickled de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I feel you watching closely. And ready to poke. As if my presence, Is under your microscope. Too familiar have I been, To those toothy grins zeroing in... With needles and pins. Attempting to prick, What is perceived thick skin! To judge if I..."></div> </div> </div>

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