<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=442922" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sub-Standard Is The Giving Of My Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sub-standard to you is the giving of my love.<br>Do you remember when it see-sawed, <br>Between excellent and moderate? <br>Before below sub-par it went.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And your nagging sent me away quite a bit.<br>For days at a time! <br>And I returned looking and feeling exuberant.<br>With no explanation how my joyous time was spent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sub-standard to you is the giving of my love.<br>And I agree the taste of it has been irregular.<br>With a flavor leftover, <br>Even the cat turns away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sour it is and sits in decay.<br>Yet when I gave it you thought it to be mixed, <br>With foolish gift giving and childish nonsense.<br>Close I came to dipping your chocolate mints in cement.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And today you demand why I express not interest? <br>I get a better response when I shake an empty paper bag, <br>While sitting alone on a park bench.<br>Surrounded by squirrels giving me at least 'some' attention.<br>And all I have to do is to pretend I am there to give.</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=442922" data-title="Sub-Standard Is The Giving Of My Love de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Sub-standard to you is the giving of my love. Do you remember when it see-sawed, Between excellent and moderate? Before below sub-par it went. And your nagging sent me away quite a bit. For days at a time! And I returned looking and feeling ex..."></div> </div> </div>

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