Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Steps taken,
To incite racial tension...
Among the citizens,
Of a government.
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Devoted glitter pickers,
Assigned to remove layers of glitz...
Gleam and blinding shine.
Begin early in the day,
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If this to repeat it,
Bores with familiarity.
Kept crucial is past nonsense,
To keep the unchanging of changing times...
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On trial to judge,
And scrutinize these days...
Are those who speak truth.
With the evidence of it produced.
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I...
Wish to keep,
My life to live...
As peacefully as I can keep it.
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New territory.
And unknown fresh dilemmas...
To face.
Is not too far distant to compare,
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No one moves forward,
When the truth is kept...
Under attack.
No one moves forward.
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Those expected to do,
What they ought to.
With it proven done.
Should now not be the ones,
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One living on the surface.
With life like that as a purpose.
Just to serve the optics.
To worship can be a curse.
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Who pays.
From an abundance of told lies,
Sold as truth.
With a nonstop telling them,
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