Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

I have prohibited my eyes,
From dripping to drop another tear.
Or allow my ears to hear,
Your assessment of where it is 'I' should be.
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Why are you now upset?
You were the one to say
Those concepts were outrageous.
Now you are enraged?
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Closer to Utopia than expected.
It has been witnessed.
And it comes quick.
A resistance of it will begin.
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How a cohesiveness,
Can pull them together
From indeciveness...
Is a test.
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For those that can not tell the difference between,
The kumquat trees and the blueberries.
Or the lettuce from tomatoes...
And must ask why bees buzz?
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What do we do 'now'?

'We' who? '
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I may happen to make things look that way...
But nothing I've known in my life,
Has been made for me easy.
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We make decisions.
Some of them quick.
Some of them split.
Some of them mixed,
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Reality is closing in on them.
And they are doing their best,
To protect their pretentions.
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With blues sung,
And the drinking of booze done...
Strung out I am now,
On life.
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