<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441335" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Qualified to Make Productive Contributions</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you have a degree? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'A degree in what? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You know? <br>Something that validates your intelligence! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Oh...<br>Something that documents my discipline, <br>And education? <br>Something that verifies my verity, <br>To conform to the wholesomeness of humanity.<br>And I am now qualified to make productive contributions? <br>My life lived, <br>Has already provided the requirements.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Uh...yeah...I guess.<br>Whatever that was you said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And...<br>I imagine you have at least 'one' degree? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course! <br>I got me two.<br>And I'm gon' get me a job that pays.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Hopefully not to teach English! <br>And...<br>Suppose I did not have that 'degree'.<br>Would that make my efforts less credible? <br>Would that make a fame or notoriety less worthy? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">IF...<br>I should pursue that route.<br>I know this is difficult for you to believe...<br>But a degree doesn't measure my success felt.<br>And I feel pretty damn successful! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So...<br>You 'do' have a degree? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You've missed my point entirely.<br>And you...<br>Have been depicted as a scholar? <br>God...<br>Thank you for opening my mind, <br>And doors! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">OH! <br>So you've studied to be a minister?</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=441335" data-title="Qualified to Make Productive Contributions de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Do you have a degree? 'A degree in what? ' You know? Something that validates your intelligence! 'Oh... Something that documents my discipline, And education? Something that verifies my verity, To conform to the wholesomeness of humanity...."></div> </div> </div>

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