Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Is this surge worse than Viet Nam?
At least back in 1968,
There wasn't so many conflicts going on!
And being a patriotic black young man...
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Close your eyes.
In preparation to dismiss,
Limitation.
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There is one thing that is certain.
When people begin an association with honesty...
And a flirting with deception from them is dismissed,
To permanently leave.
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At midnight,
When you sit in preparation...
To slither with a venomed tongue.
I will be there aware and cautioned...
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My heart goes out,
To those unknown who carry...
In their minds they can not rid,
The fact...
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How do I know times have changed,
And say that with a confidence?
I can say I've seen homosexuals and lesbians...
Engaged in public sex,
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Not one am I,
For nostalgic inflictions.
To revisit a past...
I have loosened from my grasp.
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What's that?
'Bugs!
They're all over the place!
And not one of them
Has the intelligence...
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By the time the fight with 'terrorists'
Has been won...
We will all be learning new,
And very unique and different languages!
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The last of a glistening feasting,
Eye popping as is visioned,
Ends.
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