<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=444910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tweaked and Sweetened Monologues</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spotlights are not used, <br>To coverup blemishes...<br>Kept masked and perfected in shadows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When one chooses to appear centerstage, <br>There is no where to hide...<br>A masquerading and aging charade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A flaw preferred to be left unseen...<br>Is lifted from muscles twitched, <br>As soon as that spotlight switch<br>Removes all the darkness...<br>That had limited visions to see.<br>And soliloquies rehearsed... <br>With purposes to please, <br>By the use of intensed and sweetened...<br>Tearjerking tweaked monologues, <br>Will not bring satisfaction to all witnessing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trained liars in performances stale and routine...<br>Reciting lines to convince from a dated script, <br>Without heart or feelings connected to it.<br>Are often booed and shown the exit! <br>Especially when the audience<br>Has been charged a higher price...<br>To observe someone they paid to give them sweat.<br>And the one expected to produce...<br>Could care less if they were there!</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=444910" data-title="Tweaked and Sweetened Monologues de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Spotlights are not used, To coverup blemishes... Kept masked and perfected in shadows. When one chooses to appear centerstage, There is no where to hide... A masquerading and aging charade. A flaw preferred to be left unseen... Is lifted from ..."></div> </div> </div>

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