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Created on: October 24, 2009 Last Updated: October 27, 2009
The Platinum Triangle of Privilege
Where big city mentality
Meets small-town charm
The so-called "Platinum Triangle of Privilege"
Where precious metals of all sorts
Signify the precious unions of love
That populate the perfectly built buildings
Atop the perfectly manicured lawns.
Where to be perfect still is not good enough
And to be not good enough
Will never get you in or out of the door.
If you cannot make it there, you will never make it anywhere.
Where ivory tower arrogance is the assumed and suggested standard.pl And where the suggested standard of behavior is "perfect or please leave."
"Please leave if you are not privileged."
"Please leave if you are not perfect."
"Please leave if you prefer to companion rather than to compete."
"And please leave if my pesky and persnickety pleads for perfection are a peeve of yours."
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