<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=444050" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>This Comes to Those Who Loved to Pose Near Ghettos</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An accustomed greed<br>Did not allow them to consolidate, <br>With those in need.<br>Those homeless without shelter.<br>And being depleted<br>As the greedy fed...<br>To feed and tease.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they teased.<br>Requesting qualifications, <br>And deciding which among them<br>Would be pleased to be in their presence.<br>Instituting...<br>An awareness that divides, <br>By racist lines an intelligence may hide.<br>Groomed by standards that have been subpar...<br>Below that in some places.<br>And getting caught by the trappings, <br>Of low gutter bars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Are they the ones...<br>Experiencing a reversal that's begun? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dripping wet and running fast...<br>To escape a nightmare born on 'crack'.<br>This comes to those who loved to pose near ghettos.<br>In pictures to depict themselves above others.<br>And now they find themselves so below, <br>Feeling an absence of a glow once flaunted.<br>They can not be driven away from their pretensions.<br>Clutching the air for something to grasp.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And it hurts to know...<br>Someone wishes suicide, <br>Than to be by the side...<br>Of another human being.<br>One who has lived honestly.<br>And that fact in comparison demeans, <br>It seems.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And dreams lifted, <br>From behind the backs of those attacked...<br>Those who have been left...<br>Without possessions.<br>Medicate.<br>To keep a feeling of a worthless hollowness, <br>Defended to protect nonexisting interests owned.<br>Or turf to settle 'beefs' on streets...<br>Where they did not invest sense or time!</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=444050" data-title="This Comes to Those Who Loved to Pose Near Ghettos de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="An accustomed greed Did not allow them to consolidate, With those in need. Those homeless without shelter. And being depleted As the greedy fed... To feed and tease. And they teased. Requesting qualifications, And deciding which among them Woul..."></div> </div> </div>

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