<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441212" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Programmed to Switch Channels</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I pinched myself, <br>Would you feel it and say 'ouch! '<br>Would my concerns<br>Pull you away from a chair or a couch, <br>Ecstactic with empathy? <br>Until that happens...<br>Your understanding of my pain, <br>Will be as quick as shifting<br>From one boring episode to another! <br>We are programmed to switch channels.<br>It is a convenience to keep us detached, <br>And self absorbed! <br>We are only aware of the connection...<br>When our viewing habits have been temporarily delayed.<br>Or interrupts with an immediate personal discomfort, <br>We rush to announce to others with dismay and disbelief! <br>Until baseball season comes to help us keep score.</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=441212" data-title="Programmed to Switch Channels de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="If I pinched myself, Would you feel it and say 'ouch! ' Would my concerns Pull you away from a chair or a couch, Ecstactic with empathy? Until that happens... Your understanding of my pain, Will be as quick as shifting From one boring episode ..."></div> </div> </div>

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