<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=444659" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tongues Enclosed Within Cheeks</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How am I qualified to live my life? <br>That's an interesting question...<br>Coming from the likes of someone like you.<br>Someone assigned to watch what I do.<br>Getting paid a salary to monitor me too.<br>Then to come uninvited into my comfort zone...<br>Looking for ways to have me condoned, <br>In my own home.<br>To ask how I am qualified to live my life? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I guess as much as you are...qualified.<br>If you can leave here with undiminished pride.<br>And with those same indignities remembered.<br>Those same indignities you do not at all try to hide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was taught to observe others with tolerance.<br>But I have learned to teach, <br>How to keep tongues enclosed within cheeks.<br>And how one's teeth should be whitened to make clear, <br>What deliberate lips wish for someone like you to kiss.<br>And to remember it as an undenying qualification, <br>People like you not expecting that is kept in preparation! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I appreciate that.<br>You are not like the others.<br>You express an intelligence.<br>And...<br>Your diction? <br>So crisp and understandable.<br>I am impressed AND amazed.'</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=444659" data-title="Tongues Enclosed Within Cheeks de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="How am I qualified to live my life? That's an interesting question... Coming from the likes of someone like you. Someone assigned to watch what I do. Getting paid a salary to monitor me too. Then to come uninvited into my comfort zone... Looking ..."></div> </div> </div>

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