Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Children,
Should be taught...
In ways to help them grow.
And,
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In the quietness of thought.
I drift.
Welcoming an imagined wonderment.
To notice.
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Life experiences to know them lived.
Are like lessons to learn,
With a pain to realize over time...
To remember the agony.
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Few can say...
They do not choose to make,
Their own decisions.
Done to do to have it their way.
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Locked up in monotony.
Nonstop.
And baited to hook.
To all the nonsense dropped.
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No one stunned,
Runs from it.
And no one runs,
When stunned.
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Nobody does to another.
To not know why.
Nobody does this,
Repeatedly done using alibis.
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It's the people.
Climbing up from being dumbed down.
And it's the people.
Finally seeing all around,
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Before there was a web.
Nobody tweeted or twittered.
Before there was a web.
People spoke on the streets.
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No depth has yet proven.
To be too low.
For those mindblowers.
Whether to do quickly.
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