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Shame on You! (sorry, this one has teeth)
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Shame on You! (sorry, this one has teeth) |
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Auguste 
since 2000-02-16
Posts 3953By the sea 
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Shame on You by Michael You with your wealth that don’t consider yourselves wealthy, because you’re not yet wealthy enough, horde it! Just keep it to yourselves! Hear the jingling bell at Christmas on your way in and out of the store? You don’t give! You avert your eyes and pretend the man is not there. Never mind that you’ve just spent hundreds of dollars on things you didn’t need. You push the over-full shopping cart to your new car and discover a small dent in the door. You’re furious! You have insurance. What about the man and woman just a few miles distant that are driving around in a 1977 Pontiac and struggling not only with the insurance payments, but trying to afford a new tag? You enjoy good health when others fight each day for survival with their own, yet you’ve the nerve to whine when you have a headache. Do me a favor? Take two aspirin and shut to hell up! You choose your friends by how much education they have, their job, the worth of their home. Did you notice that the person putting money in the bucket of the guy jingling the bell just also happens to be the one driving the 1977 Pontiac? Yet, he isn’t worthy of your friendship. You would be embarrassed to have his old car seen in your driveway. The neighbors might talk. Heavens, let’s not let that happen! Shame on you! See this in my hand? It's a seed. Put on some garden gloves. Don't want you getting your hands dirty, do we? Plant it in the ground and grow some C H A R A C T E R! Michael Auguste~ |
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Poet deVine
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Let the biting begin!! I agree with you 100%!!! You go get 'em Michael!  |
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SEA
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
yes, this is so true.....I love this! It's a bite some people really need! Like a certain family member of mine...ugh.....  |
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Trillium
since 2001-03-09
Posts 12098Idaho, USA |
This is something that needs to be said and I hope the people it is intended for, find it and do feel some shame. Betty Lou Hebert |
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Lady In White
since 2001-02-12
Posts 2799USA |
Not so much teeth as rightous spirit.... well done Sir. |
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inot2B Member Elite
since 2000-09-18
Posts 2205Arkansas |
If the truth hurts, then let the pain begin. Very well said. |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Auguste, Yea " " happens. Enjoyed |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
great job with this one Michael. . . "teeth" indeed!!! ------------------------------------------------------------ To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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rich-pa Member
since 2000-02-07
Posts 317New Orleans, Louisiana |
a flash of teeth, bravo, loved the content! "freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose..." -janis joplin |
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Titia Geertman Member Ascendant
since 2001-05-07
Posts 5182Netherlands |
 RIGHT TITIA |
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Temptress
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL |
Bites, indeed. I like the message of course. Makes us realize not to take what we have for granted. |
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magnolia Junior Member
since 2001-05-05
Posts 16 |
Well Said! I agree totally!! Magnolia |
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snowpants Member Elite
since 2000-09-16
Posts 2061KS |
You tell 'em, Michael! Great write for some much-needed perspective! sp  it was love that first drew me, |
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