Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

I don't think anyone intentionally pays them no attention.
Or goes out of their way to do it!
I would say,
No one has selected them as choices,
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Now...
You wait until I am in complete focus,
Before you start the video.
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Before an egg is cracked...
A chicken is hatched from that.
To peck around until its feathers are plucked.
Then baked or fried,
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'Ladies and gentlemen,
May I have your attention.
Thank you.
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I can decide not to accept.
And most times I do not hesitate,
In procrastination.
Or I can choose between singing the blues.
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It is easy to pass judgement.
And easier still,
To impose upon someone else...
For something delivered from the kitchen.
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Come here,
Gimme kiss.
Gimme hug too.
Why you treatin' me like this?
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You're looking for relevance?
What a coincidence.
So am I.
But I think the retrieving of it...
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Notoriety and fame is all relative.
If a message has content.
How that message is delivered,
And by who should not matter.
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To be in the presence of adults,
Still in full possession of child like mentalities...
Gives me a chill.
The kind I know is noticed.
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