Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

For someone who claims to enjoy his privacy,
He has been seen more in one week...
Than all of his elected time in office.
Eight deceiving years,
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Beneath that hard covered rock.
I know there's something you've got.
On the surface you are cool.
But deep within you're hot!
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You may not like what I like.
For something else to feed your pleasures.
But the brighter side of life...
I'd like to move within your sight!
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From which one of your stale placements,
Do you believe you can rate...
My taste for staying updated?
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Whether she is Latino,
African-American.
Caucasian white!
Or anything they decide to be...
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Hoe nah håy.
Hoe nah håy...
Nah nah nah.
Hoe nah håy nah nah.
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Statistics,
As they are followed...
And used for the benefit,
To ingrain a subjective confidence...
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It's too bad it died.
Love we tried to keep,
Ecstatic.
Then one day it dried.
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People who believe they are indispensible...
Are the ones ready to kill.
Believing the experience of life,
Is theirs to give and take at will.
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The game players of America,
Are first bred in our neighborhoods.
They are conditioned to be gangsters,
Crooks and hoodlums.
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