Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

I have learned,
Not to expect the getting of respect...
From those seeking first to be impressed.
Especially when many perceive success,
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Why should I lower my expectations,
To accomodate someone else's incompetence?
Why should I accept mediocrity...
Because that's the highest the bar has been risen.
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They're not here to revisit,
The gaslamp.
They're not living to revisit,
Those cobblestone roads.
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We must fight...
With a resistance,
Against the darkness.
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Travel on!
My brothers.
Travel on...
My sisters, fathers, mothers.
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Sugar snap peas,
I plant thy rods.
To enable your journey...
With tentacles to grab tight.
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Under the shadow of those shallow,
They follow.
Loyal and addicted.
A sickness they have lived with.
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Summer winds.
Soon they will be gone,
And
Fall begins.
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Strength in leadership,
And commitment to rhetoric...
As the dollar value slips.
Leaving harder times to come and exist!
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Why do some camels have two humps,
And others one?

'That's a good question!
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