<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441888" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sarcastic Wit</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I once convinced myself, <br>I could curb my sarcastic wit.<br>And for all of ten minutes, <br>I tolerated my enforced patience.<br>Hoping the expressions in my eyes...<br>With an eyebrow lift, <br>Would deliver my thoughts...<br>Without them coming through my lips.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the torment shown on my face, <br>Could not erase the smoke slowly emitting...<br>From my ears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when it was mentioned to me, <br>My eyeballs look as if they would pop out of my head...<br>And my face was beginning to turn beet red? <br>Well...<br>Immediately I panicked.<br>Black folks are not known to turn beet red! <br>I was not prepared to become a phenomenon.<br>OR a statistic.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I realized for health reasons, <br>It is better for me to be sarcastic.<br>Than to pass out to accomplish the impossible...<br>By attempting to keep my mouth closed.<br>Instead of freely saying to another...<br>What it is I have to say.<br>Since I am not into rolling eyes...<br>Or speaking out of both sides of my mouth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like some folks I know, <br>Afraid that being direct...<br>May effect their standing in gosssip circles.<br>And who have popularized, <br>The 'look away as they speak'...<br>Delivery when communicating.<br>And...<br>They are quite comfortable in the doing.</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=441888" data-title="Sarcastic Wit de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I once convinced myself, I could curb my sarcastic wit. And for all of ten minutes, I tolerated my enforced patience. Hoping the expressions in my eyes... With an eyebrow lift, Would deliver my thoughts... Without them coming through my lips. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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