Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

You care about me?
For how long,
And since when?
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Sit.
Don't you fidget.
Listen for a bit,
Before you quit it.
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The answers to questions,
Are there.
The answers have always been there.
Impatiently glaring.
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You can lead a horse to the water.
But you can not force that horse to drink.

'I've heard that before.
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Ulterior motives,
Not realized exposed
On one's exterior to be seen,
Is expected from a child
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Steep from a peak a fall,
Deep.
Just like a ball rolling,
Gaining speed.
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A common sense,
Directed to someone accustomed.
To an irrational way of life,
Deluded and fantasized.
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With an obvious uncaring done,
Their recent tactics shown to everyone...
Has lost them much respect.
With a designation of them as a people,
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They seek to find anything,
To represent lofty images they have of themselves.
And yet,
Opportunities to display a public mudslinging...
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A resting temporarily,
From a digging of a hole
Dug deep,
Is no cause for celebration.
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