Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

'I can't stay here.
I realize my life,
Should be a priority to take...
Much more seriously.'
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Too much emphasis has been placed,
On Blackness and this effect...
It has to have left,
The rightness of Whites...
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I would or could not,
Place a bet against anyone...
Who 'appears' to be less impressive.
Or...
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What has become,
More apparent and obvious...
Is the number of people,
Losing a fight against...
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Every now and then,
I have to stop to convince myself...
A magician I am not.
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Wounded are those left scarred,
Again.
Reminded of a pain that remains,
Unhealed or given a chance of it.
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Exploited.
Hunted and sought,
As if items reduced purposely...
To seduce a selling,
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What's wrong with this World?

'Nothing but the people.'
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Any mind confined,
Restricted over a period of time...
Diminishes.
Declines.
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Intergrated segregation,
On both sides of a rusted fence.
Sustains successfully,
Beliefs to keep remaining the same...
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