Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

I had the funding.
I had the opportunity.
And I wanted with them to share.
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Upset?
You know you still can use the option,
Of blaming someone else.
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When any novelty begins to overstay its visit,
The joy of having it around...
Quickly becomes,
An abusive attempt to get rid of it.
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By the time I was twenty-one years old,
I had served in the military.
Married and had a child.
Even I am amazed my clarity is unphased.
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The origin of the madnes,
Has been thoroughly investigated.
And a determined focused attention,
To correct this has been given.
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The weird one,
Out.
An escapee,
From a life deemed scarred...
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Keep them coming.
Insults you believe leaves me taunted.
Keep them coming.
It is you,
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My wishing to stop the pain of remembered love,
Isn't easy.
The more I think of love,
And the coming with it those moments of bliss...
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You may wish to believe,
You have given me something.
Something that allows you...
To attach yourself to my work ethic.
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Within some minds,
It is okay to be criticized.
And in some minds closed and confined...
What others do to them,
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