To Put Down With One-Up-Manship Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Breeding a verbal fever,
To heat and not decrease...
Increases high those tempers flaring,
With it done not to cease.

To put down with one-up-manship,
Is a game outdated overplayed to bait...
A youtful pettiness some can't escape.
Especially when those grow older.

The youth are becoming too wise to this.
And have dismissed those who should know better.
The old have molded their world to exist,
On conflicts and fights they permit.

Battling over entitlements to greed.
To put down with one-up-manship.
Self righteousness and with egos to feed.
To put down with one-up-manship.
With no benefits to get or leave.
To put down with one-up-manship.

The youth are becoming too wise to this.
And have dismissed those who should know better.
The old have molded their world to exist,
On conflicts and fights they permit.

Battling over entitlements to greed.
To put down with one-up-manship.
Self righteousness and with egos to feed.
To put down with one-up-manship.
With no benefits to get or leave.
To put down with one-up-manship.

Breeding a verbal fever,
To heat and not decrease...
Increases high those tempers flaring,
With it done not to cease.

Battling over entitlements to greed.
To put down with one-up-manship.
Self righteousness and with egos to feed.
To put down with one-up-manship.
With no benefits to get or leave.
To put down with one-up-manship.
No progress from this succeeds!
To put down with one-up-manship.
No progress from this succeeds!

People like this can get evil and mean,
When they put down with one-up-manship.
Oh yes a people like this get evil and mean.
When they put down with one-up-manship.