Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

You may want to avoid those twilight years,
To gain any lingering compliments that may come.
But I will say this...
If you can remember 'anything' that occured in the '30's?
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They are in the business of exchanging fantasies.
No one can argue with this direction!
It is an exhausting process too long attempted.
See them for who they are!
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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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Reality is closing in on them.
And they are doing their best,
To protect their pretentions.
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What do we do 'now'?

'We' who? '
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With blues sung,
And the drinking of booze done...
Strung out I am now,
On life.
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Don't wonder about it!
Things have changed for you,
Dramatically.
Especially...
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We make decisions.
Some of them quick.
Some of them split.
Some of them mixed,
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How blind can a hindsight be?

Do you remember yesterday?
When corruption and thieves,
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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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