Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

That road has been traveled.
Long before your carefully placed steps.
Hesitated to test the paved,
And manicured path you take.
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If,
For a number of decades...
A pleading made,
Flies away with the birds.
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That banana cake taste,
Grandma use to bake.
And was loved?
Is gone with the deep dish apple pie.
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I've learned this,
About self indulgences.

Do not be too quick to share them.
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Why Don't I like you?
I don't know.
I can't put my finger on it.
I just know I don't.
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I had no idea how thick their lips of greed were!
I just 'assumed' everyone was making a fashion statement.

'Where have you been?
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'Never in my wildest dreams,
Had I ever in my lifetime 'think'
I would be so highly honored.
With such a prestigious citation.
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If I can express,
From my own point of view...
A committment to honesty,
As 'my' experience with it
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Why are you rambling?

'Why is that your concern? '
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If I had no embedded indoctrinations,
Or a thumb to suck when I was young.
Would I be as stunned to discover,
Those unaccustomed to living in the projects...
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