<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440556" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Only Mental Memoirs Kept</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is going to be a clean sweep.<br>A complete overhaul...<br>Of present thinking, <br>By those who rode...<br>On a merry-go-round enjoyed.<br>But now has been stalled.<br>For certain conditions, <br>To be employed! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A total restructuring, <br>Of a thought process.<br>Coming soon to a mind near you.<br>And this, <br>All can expect! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gone are the days, <br>Are those having their way.<br>With assumptions done...<br>Including less discipline, <br>To have a life full of fun! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A consciousness that will insist, <br>Everyone snaps awake.<br>And overnight this will seem, <br>To have taken place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Attitudes about who will do what...<br>Will have few people, <br>Sitting on their butts! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With no 'buts' or 'ifs'...<br>Used for excuses to resist! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A total restructuring, <br>Of a thought process.<br>Coming soon to a mind near you.<br>And this, <br>All can expect! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No one will be asked to choose, <br>Whether or not they will participate.<br>With a hesitation to confuse.<br>What will be delivered, <br>No one can refuse.<br>No offer will be made...<br>To those in moods wishing to debate! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those days are gone! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only mental memoirs kept...<br>In private reminiscing.<br>During lunch breaks! <br>And assignments completed...<br>When one has finished, <br>Using their brooms, mops or rakes! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A conformity will be restored.<br>Not to be ignored.<br>Or out done.<br>By those holding onto pretensions.<br>To impress someone.<br>Who might care who they knew.<br>Or where they vacationed, <br>Under the Sun.<br>To bask and enhance healthy tans.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A consciousness that insists, <br>Everyone snaps awake.<br>And this will traumatize, <br>To bring many heartbreak! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Attitudes about who will do what...<br>Will have few people, <br>Sitting on their butts! <br>With noses turned up! <br>With no 'buts' or 'ifs'...<br>Used for excuses to resist! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A total restructuring, <br>Of a thought process.<br>Coming soon to a mind near you.<br>And this, <br>All can expect! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You can bet on that, <br>To happen next! <br>For all to socialize...<br>With sweat pouring down, <br>Their faces and necks! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Hey you...<br>Yes you! <br>The 'intellectual'! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">After you're through writing.<br>Or whatever it is you do.<br>Get back to your chores.<br>I don't want to have to repeat that...<br>Like I did before.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With no 'buts' or 'ifs'...<br>Used for excuses to resist! <br>You can expect this...<br>To arrive at your door! <br>Persisting with wishes...<br>Will not be done anymore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>*Note of definition for 'memoir' as used in this context: <br>'...the record of the proceedings, <br>of a learned society...'</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=440556" data-title="Only Mental Memoirs Kept de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="There is going to be a clean sweep. A complete overhaul... Of present thinking, By those who rode... On a merry-go-round enjoyed. But now has been stalled. For certain conditions, To be employed! A total restructuring, Of a thought process. C..."></div> </div> </div>

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