<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=444402" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Amuse At The Expense Of Wasted Time</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would these be betting odds, <br>That an asking of someone...<br>Who has done something in their life, <br>For more than 'sixty years'.<br>And approached to be questioned, <br>What they have been doing...<br>Since they were last seen ten years ago? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that question has been asked, <br>By that same person rerpeatedly.<br>And the response is known.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What would be the likely odds, <br>That the person asked the question...<br>Would 'not' be doing, <br>What has become an obvious love...<br>For what that person does.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Should the one asking that same question, <br>Take a gamble and ask another question...<br>That would initiate a conversation, <br>Expressing a real interest? <br>And not just say the same thing to re-tread.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I maybe wrong about this, <br>But...<br>Leaving the person feeling a sense of being appreciated, <br>Would probably reveal a human being existing.<br>Instead of a novelty to amuse at the expense of wasted 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=444402" data-title="To Amuse At The Expense Of Wasted Time de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Would these be betting odds, That an asking of someone... Who has done something in their life, For more than 'sixty years'. And approached to be questioned, What they have been doing... Since they were last seen ten years ago? And that quest..."></div> </div> </div>

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