Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Exceptions...
Are dispensed all the time.
By those in positions,
Given authority to be selective...
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Why is it that it seems,
You express little empathy...
Towards those who are currently,
Suffering from hunger, homelessness.
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Redone.
Refurbished,
And...
Renovated much too late.
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Those who habitually lie,
Will try their best to decieve others...
With performances to convince,
That the ones unafraid to speak the truth...
...

It is so much more,
Than...
Just a regiment.
And...
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Do you stay with a craving...
That is a hunger for me?
And,
Is this...
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People today upset,
Expect the effects of change...
To be for them painless.
And immaculate.
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The more expense of persuasion spent,
And the actual acts of facts put into place...
To chase away doubt and those paying,
With debates displayed and tossed about...
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Even after all of the performances are done.
And the expense spent on the hype,
Leaves no one in the audience excited.
Or feeling their appetites have been satisfied.
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Faking interest.
With less than half-baked dedication,
Is still a 'wannabee' self indulging on pretense.
Hoping that an expression of devotion,
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