Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

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2021.
Hard For Them To Believe

I was asked,
At a time...
If I knew what I was doing?
As if my thoughts,
...

2022.
Never Accepted What Their Eyes Have Shown

Something in their heads,
Have them programmed to believe...
They should not respect themselves.
Or expect they can and could achieve.
...

2023.
How It Feels To Be 61

I was asked how it feels to be 61?
As if I was an exhibit.
Lost...
And finding my way back to a museum.
...

2024.
Breathtaking

Why do I applaud them,
With enthusiasm in my standing ovation?
Did you just see that?
Their performance given...
...

2025.
Sought To See With Wishes Granted And Seen

I am indeed,
Not the perception...
But the belief.
...

2026.
Listening?

So much has been spoken.
So much has been said...
To fall on deaf ears.
...

2027.
Not Totally Naked

I tied my own shoes.
I was conscious of it.
All day I was aware...
I was not totally naked.
...

2028.
Even If I Had Them To Juice

You need not for me to dangle carrots.
I am not easily teased,
To believe my eyesight will clear...
Even if I had them to juice.
...

2029.
From Another Era

Old and out of touch.
Nothing else needs to be said...
To address their shallowness,
Collecting dust with much distrust!
...

2030.
To Uphold A Facilitation Of Rhetoric

Too many had made a case,
Too make haste much too late.
And now they scatter...
To escape from crevices hidden,
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