<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=445261" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Validation Made</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wasn't voted Most Likely To Succeed, <br>In high school.<br>Afterall...<br>Who would declare, <br>In 1965 a desire to find success as a writer? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A doctor, a lawyer, a minister? <br>A fireman? <br>A basketball or a football star? <br>Okay! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What did he say...<br>A 'writer'? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are they laughing at me? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I didn't declare that to get attention.<br>I knew what I was.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today I hear 'kids' with wishes to be...<br>A movie, rap or singing star.<br>Baseball, basketball...<br>Or a football great.<br>Nurses and doctors too.<br>Afterall, they make 'money'...<br>That's what I hear them say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But a writer? <br>And of poetry? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are they laughing at me? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Medic? <br>We've got one over here.<br>Delusional and hallucinating.<br>See what can be done.<br>If nothing...<br>Forget it! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well...<br>Very few writers make money, <br>Doing what they do.<br>And my name aint Twain, Langston...<br>Or Maya Angelou! <br>I did know Zora Neale Hurston's family.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her brother Edgar, his wife and kids, <br>Lived in Bellevue Square in Hartford....<br>As me and my family did.<br>I grew up with their children.<br>And Robert, the second eldest son...<br>Was a good friend of mine.<br>Oh...<br>How I hate to name drop! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And fame? <br>Who said anything about wanting to be famous? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said I was a writer.<br>Aint nothing about that has changed.<br>But I wish I had some bucks for my efforts.<br>Especially as I've age with a validation made.</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=445261" data-title="Validation Made de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I wasn't voted Most Likely To Succeed, In high school. Afterall... Who would declare, In 1965 a desire to find success as a writer? A doctor, a lawyer, a minister? A fireman? A basketball or a football star? Okay! 'What did he say... A 'w..."></div> </div> </div>

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