Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

If it's wanted you've got to be bold.
You can't hold back,
Be bold.
If it's wanted you've got to be bold.
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Living for the sole purpose,
To entertain the self servicing...
Of one's own interests.
To have never known what it takes,
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Take me as I am.
And while you are at the doing of it,
Keep in your mind,
There is no time will I look to find...
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At the fence!
And reunited with others who have come,
To listen and prepared to defend.....
Another round of embellishments to exaggerate.
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If people choose to delude themselves,
What point is made in deliberate debates...
To argue against kept perceptions?
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Only those accepting to live life,
Feeling obligated to express gratitude...
Are seldom heard complaining to judge,
As if this was a job for them to do...
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When I discover,
That the minding of my own business...
INSIDE my home,
Alone and condoned.
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Hunger, homelessness...
Joblessness and violence,
Increasingly observed...
In neighborhoods once preserved,
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People can not perceive,
Historically accepted and their known beliefs...
Thought to be implanted with steel,
And embedded deep within concrete...
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Sticky wicked and bit.
Now they are stung.
Sticky wicked and bit.
Now they are stunned,
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