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Bout Etiquette

Some say etiquette is a set of rules for high culture,
others it is only a protocol of prescriptions for well bred person,
few still believe it is a symbolic obedience to a spiritual entity,
and I would say etiquette is both internal and external behavior
understood under certain and specific society,
though expressed in views on the standard of what aesthetic defines is
and therefore, it is ‘man’s’ highest language of social conformity.

poem by Jordan Legaspi
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What Is It They Don't Understand?

Why haven't they boarded the lifeboats?

~They first wish to discuss,
Political correctness and social etiquette.
And what 'is' or isn't poetic.~

AND...
They 'are' aware of the ship sinking?

~They first wish to discuss,
Political correctness and social etiquette.
And what 'is' or isn't poetic.~

What is it they don't understand?

~They first wish to discuss,
Political correctness and social etiquette.
And what 'is' or isn't poetic.~

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

quote by Quentin Crisp
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Within Boundaries You Value

You want it staid and kept measured.
Within boundaries you value.
So you say.
Pleasuring a stagnant and irresistable existence?
Done in an explicit standard way.
Sober, grave and mysteriously serious?
I'm down and cool with it.
I don't find for me your etiquette appropriate.

But why are you over here,
Obviously out of place.
Is there something about my exuberance,
You wish to witness up close and in your face?

You want it staid and kept measured.
Within boundaries you value.
So you say.
Pleasuring a stagnant and irresistable existence?
Done in an explicit standard way.
Sober, grave and mysteriously serious?
I'm down and cool with it.
I don't find for me your etiquette appropriate.

But,
Tell me this...
Why is it you can not admit,
You're tired of walking as if 'corked' so stiff?
And you want me to relieve you...
With a pulling it out and you want this done quick.
Should I count to ten as you turn around,
Before I get on with it?

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

quote by Franz von Papen
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Sometimes It Feels As If I Am Not Really Living

Sometimes it feels
as if I am not really living,
as I am just marking time,
being trapped in a body

where no choices
but destiny determines the way
that my life is going,
while I am not fit
to become part of the social structure
where everyone else is loosing individuality

and by design I am
not made to cringe, to be servile
or obsequious
and to no man I bend my knees.

I do not fit in the social mould
where language, culture, heritage
and religion has to be sacrificed
for what is seen as the common good

and no one will force me into conformity.

poem by Gert Strydom
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Despicable And Disrespecting Ways

Appalled and giving looks of disdain,
They with their exclusive and self righteous memberships...
Snear at others with blemished records.
From a past long ago regarded as youthfully spent.
And affecting any chance today they may walk upon water.

Of course...
These are the same people,
Who annoint themselves keepers of etiquette.
As passers of the ultimate judgements.
They also create the rules.
And 'makeup' the laws too.

And they who declare themselves above dirt and dust,
Have been the same ones supporting...
The marketing of decadence.
The very garbage surrounding us.
They are same ones driving up and down...
Trashed streets in deprived neighborhoods cruising.
Hoping anyone is soliciting to sell themselves,
As fresh meat.

And those of the self righteous,
Pay for a few minutes to get a quick taste.
Wasting no time showing their bravery,
To jump in someone's face to say...
Who in their past has done acts of sleaze.
And who is not qualified,
To be a role model representing their high standards.
And who should be idolized by children,
Who neither can write nor read or speak English properly.

These are the same people,
Who annoint themselves keepers of etiquette.
Passers of ultimate judgements.
They also create the rules.
And 'makeup' the laws too.

Look around!
Who allowed the quality of life,
And foundations of kept standards and values...
To crumble down?
The poor, hungry and homeless?
Victims of not being deceivers, crooks or blatant thieves.

And they are brave enough to look in someone's face.
The ones who place themselves on high pedestals...
To say,
Who in their past has done acts of sleaze.
And who is not qualified to represent their high standards.

While expressing themselves to be forever hypnotized,
By their fantasized delusions.
And despicable and disrespecting ways on display,
Boasting about what they have, who they are...
In social name dropping sessions.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Sophisticated Love

Few will ever risk it.
Or admit this from their lips...
It's hard to find and keep,
Sophisticated love.

Too fussy to get busy,
When such etiquette is wished.
In a publicly addressed expressed,
Sophisticated love.

It's hard to get too physical,
When make-up touched gets rubbed.
With a maintenance existing,
In sophisticated love.

It's hard to get too physical,
When make-up touched gets rubbed.
With a maintenance existing,
In sophisticated love.

Few will ever risk it.
Or admit this from their lips...
It's hard to find and keep,
Sophisticated love.

It's hard to get too physical,
When make-up touched gets rubbed.
It's hard to find and keep,
Sophisticated love.

Too fussy to get busy,
When such etiquette is wished.
It's hard to find and keep,
Sophisticated love.

It's hard to get too physical,
When etiquette is wished.

It's hard to find and keep,
Sophisticated love.

It's hard to get too physical,
When etiquette is wished.

It's hard to find and keep,
Sophisticated love.

Too fussy to get busy,
When such etiquette is wished.
It's hard to find and keep,
Sophisticated love.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

quote by Florence King
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To Address As A Valued Standard Formality

People do not want to hear the truth.
Not as it is apply to the activity of reality.
Nor do they want to take time to listen...
With a patience to comprehend,
Anything mentioned to them...
That may be detrimental to their lives.
And with a quickness they find ways,
To fantasize.

However...
A complaining without an end to this,
Many will do...
After learning they have been deceived.
And these very same people,
Do their best to impress with pretensions.
To address as a valued standard formality.
They don't call this deception.

This is preferred to be called social etiquette.
Intermixing with others also associated,
With the giving of false appearances.
As a feeding of nonsense fed is shared between them.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Education does have a great role to play in this period of transition. But it is not either education or legislation; it is both education and legislation. It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important also. It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless, and this is what we often do and we have to do in society through legislation. We must depend on religion and education to change bad internal attitudes, but we need legislation to control the external effects of those bad internal attitudes. And so there is a need for meaningful civil right legislation.

quote by Martin Luther King
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Effected Etiquette

Oh...
There are a few choice cuss words,
I'd like to use right now.
But I do not want to offend...
Your high brow outlook.
Or your effected etiquette.

I respect your false pretentiousness maintained.
Really, I do.
But you have to admit...
You would like to let your hair down,
And cuss a little bit!

You have got to have something else on your mind?
Especially today.
Something besides appropriate table placements.
And where your dinner guests will sit?
Daring...
With the nerve to complain,
About the items given to you...
From the food bank?
And 'those' people you were with!

I am 'trying' my best to respect you!
But you are making me absolutely sick,
With your lack of empathy.
And your devoted self centeredness!
Displayed with such focused objectivity.
Or the lack there of!

Oh...
There are a few choice cuss words,
I'd like to use right now.
But I do not want to offend...
Your high brow outlook.
Or your effected etiquette.
Or ruin the extended invitation,
To me you have given!

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Etiquette

What is she selling?
Who are her buyers?
But i am only doing my job to updat my mind with you;
So eat like that and dance like that too for your lover.
Dress like that and think of the Modus Operandi;
like one leg in and one leg out on this love game.
Now, the hunter is being hunted;
Now, the writer is being questioned;
Like a protocol to a school far away from home.

Just say it and do it for love,
Because the matter at hand is pregnant!
Cool, fool, root, wool, sail, jail;
Like shooters from a hill aiming at the lovers' camp.
The people around you have seen it and,
Wonders shall never end;
Like a protocol to a school far away from home.

When did you leave your deco?
Please, practice some more and the glory will be your's;
Because, i will rather work than go to jail.
Need before greed,
Heed before speed,
Feed before seed,
Deed before weed,
Reed before screed,
Breed before tweed,
Like the Blue River Ranch with etiquette;
They say time heals everything but,
It is not always true.

You are more beautiful in real life than this fruit,
So, who is to be blamed? !
Often killed than rather cared for,
But a bird doesn't follow the cow for nothing.
Like all his life on water,
Like all her life in school,
With bitter pains and sweet success;
But the press have not read about it.

Life is like a message for the mouse and the house,
Inspired by the colours of nature to taste this fruit;
But the days are long and the nights short.
Of bitter pains and sweet success,
Like the etiquette of the Blue River Ranch;
But when a crafty man buries himself,
His hands still remain above the ground.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Later!

And...
What do you do?

'You talking to me? '

Of course.
I'm looking right into your eyes.

'Yeah.
You are...
Aren't you.
Well,
First of all,
I do say hello to people.
There is 'something' about doing that,
Which gives a clue courtesy is involved.'

Oh, please.
Spare me that social etiquette stuff.

'Sure.
No problem.
Later! '

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Disturbed Psychologically

A ripping apart of 'standards'
Does not occur
When people have been politically correct.
Or profess to have qualities that are perfectly expressed,
With a display of proper etiquette.

A ripping apart of 'standard's like those witnessed,
Occurs
When people are disturbed psychologically.
And desperately wish to be correct!
By pointing out the flaws of others.

Enforcing their own beliefs,
To such a degree...
They seek to be bailed out,
From their own failures created.

And 'everyone'...
Whether ostracized or despised,
By racist insecurities or flat out lies told...
Pays a price to right these wrongs,
Condoned by crooks.
Whose peers are also professional thieves!

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Behavior

BEHAVIOR--fresh, native, copious, each one for himself or herself,
Nature and the Soul expressed--America and freedom expressed--In it
the finest art,
In it pride, cleanliness, sympathy, to have their chance,
In it physique, intellect, faith--in it just as much as to manage an
army or a city, or to write a book--perhaps more,
The youth, the laboring person, the poor person, rivalling all the
rest--perhaps outdoing the rest,
The effects of the universe no greater than its;
For there is nothing in the whole universe that can be more effective
than a man's or woman's daily behavior can be,
In any position, in any one of These States.

poem by Walt Whitman
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Protect Individual Rights

To precisely follow set
traditions an accepted
professed social cultural

religious rule of conduct
such actions are perceived
a model of good conduct?

In a healthy society such
behaviour should earn an
individual esteemed title

recognition as a good person
of genuine moral principles
responsibility as a role model.

A fundamental doctrine or tenet
is an agreed upon social contract
a distinctive conduct ruling opinion

a guiding sense of requirements
obligations enforce right conduct
moral principle is honour bound.

A fixed predetermined policy
a standard of lawful behavior
a sound law of moral judgments

decisions based on beneficial principles
ensures guarantees civilized society will
protect individual rights for benefit of all.

poem by Terence George Craddock
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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

quote by Freda Adler
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Conformity

Conformity,
Purified,
And like the patience of the saints!
But the standard of Perfection is what you need;
For the Righteousness of the Righteous will be upon a person,
And the wickendness of the wicked will be upon a person!
Because, this is what we see around us always on this earrth! !

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Warm Greetings

Bitter herbs! !
Internal,
Fitness;
Many thanks,
External,
With the different notes,
With the different valleys,
With the different views,
With the different keys;
But, with warm greetings from your muse.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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India is yet to be free

In the external colonialism
A mighty country rules the weak one.
In the neo colonialism,
A rich country dictates the poor one.
In the internal colonialism,
A sect dominates the other within.
Free from neo colonialism
And internal ones, India is yet to be.

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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