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The Etiquette of Standards (Fiction Unrestricted)

With a romancing done to symbolize,
Idols cast in stone to emphasize...
An hypocrisy that stabilizes their lives!
With an ostracizing actively performed,
On anyone who might criticize.

Truth to them is treated like sin.
And those who speak it become victims.
The etiquette of standards are values embraced.
Although contrived are their lives...
In a plan to devise realities compromised.
And based upon fiction unrestricted.

With a romancing done to symbolize,
Idols cast in stone to emphasize...
An hypocrisy that stabilizes their lives!
And that stability cracks backs with lies!
Upheld and defied by those hiding tears they cry.

And an unstoppable higher consciousness,

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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We Tried To Make Uneven Pieces Fit

Why can't I say I love you?
Without the previews,
That begin with tests to emphasize...
Your specialty is drama.

Why can't you just accept,
How I feel?
Without the need to see,
How deep you perceive...
A reality you can believe,
That you seek from me to reveal?

Both of us have survived,
Other relationships.
Both of us have said we tried,
To make uneven pieces fit.

And cried our eyes,
Until we squinted to see through slits.
Just to prove our cloudless eyes...

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.

quote by Krist Novoselic
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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

quote by Temple Grandin
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As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

quote by Phillips Brooks
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I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

quote by Sol LeWitt
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I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

quote by Ibrahim Rugova
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I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

quote by David Antin
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Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

quote by James Reston
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Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

quote by Douglas Feith
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