<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=444275" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Those Uncouth and Ruthless</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It had been banned...<br>The truth.<br>And those who spoke it, <br>Were ostracized and shunned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A lie guaranteed memberships in cliques.<br>And those choosing to do so...<br>Were lifted in praise.<br>To show themselves glorious, <br>And loved for their deeds in masterful craze.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They had the upper hand...<br>Those uncouth and ruthless.<br>Quick to tarnish someone's name, <br>For personal gain and recognition aimed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And promoting themselves, <br>To positions held to hide incompetence...<br>They became suspicious of intelligent thinking, <br>And demanded ignorance to run rampant! <br>A decision that kept them sinking, <br>In a funk stinking! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As they solicited 'experts' from outside, <br>Comfort zones of leisure... <br>To help them 'deny' by trial and error, <br>Reasons 'why' they lost control of their own kind! <br>Although...<br>They were not slick enough, <br>To hide this sickness<br>Resulting from their demented minds.</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=444275" data-title="Those Uncouth and Ruthless de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="It had been banned... The truth. And those who spoke it, Were ostracized and shunned. A lie guaranteed memberships in cliques. And those choosing to do so... Were lifted in praise. To show themselves glorious, And loved for their deeds in maste..."></div> </div> </div>

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