Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

You have an opinion?
Okay.
I will listen.
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What is that you are seeking?

'Seeking?
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Maturing to grow,
Upsets those getting old.
And this some show.
Hoping an aging slows.
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What's found socially acceptable,
And academically correct.
Has changed in its effective etiquette.
And has been dissected as suspect.
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You lived in a pretense kept distant.
With a building of fences resistant.
Your isolation devastated.
And away from me you stayed.
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Whatever it is that is in your life,
You believe hampers the doing...
Of those things you wish.
Remember this...
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I was told to approach them.
To tell them what the deal was.
And I was laughed at.
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Very early I was given one choice...
To listen.
OR...
Suffer through the consequences.
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Seen trickin'.
There is no secret..
Trickin' people are seen.
Because of the economy,
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I am not one to analyze or bring to judgement,
The misdeeds done by those now dead.
Or correct with facts those deceits done,
To shed bright light upon that which has been said.
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