<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=443449" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ever Changing Profile</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">No matter who interprets reality, <br>With highlighted dots...<br>Or colored crayons used, <br>To achieve an understanding.<br>We are a product of our isolated environments.<br>Be they an ethnic mix.<br>Or separated by choice of racist comforts...<br>Paraded through streets, <br>To honor one's heritage.<br>When we are given reason to celebrate...<br>During one of those monthly ethnic weeks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that ignorance that divides us all...<br>Is the same ignorance we defend, <br>When our delusions of who we are, <br>And those standards we value...<br>Are offended.<br>Depending on how those insults are delivered.<br>And by whom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And whatever those ties we keep, <br>Belonging to ancestors romanticized, <br>Who had little or nothing to do...<br>With the polluting of today's atmosphere, <br>Is kept glamorized.<br>We are fine with keeping them as our heroes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And hopefully we pray with faith, <br>They are not looking down upon us...<br>With eyes spying.<br>Observing us lose our tempers, <br>With tremendous rudeness...<br>As we together stand in unity, <br>In a crowded fast food restaurant, <br>Hoping what has been ordered...<br>Doesn't take too much longer, <br>Before we get to eat it.<br>Without a single thought, <br>Of being threatened by terrorists...<br>To cross our minds.<br>Until we all are reminded by the media...<br>Our treasured lifestyle is so envied, <br>We must be alerted to take pre-caution.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this we do...<br>As we wonder while munching, <br>And sipping on diet soft drinks...<br>Which one of us fits, <br>The ever changing profile...<br>Of a lunatic! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Why are you carrying that huge book around? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~This is my collection of the different looks of terrorists.<br>Everyday I need to updat it, <br>To keep abreast of who will be depicted as one next.~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'They have the best 'fries' here.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~I agree.~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Do you have a recent picture of Bin Laden? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~No, not yet.<br>I am waiting for his next video release.~</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=443449" data-title="The Ever Changing Profile de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="No matter who interprets reality, With highlighted dots... Or colored crayons used, To achieve an understanding. We are a product of our isolated environments. Be they an ethnic mix. Or separated by choice of racist comforts... Paraded through s..."></div> </div> </div>

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