Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Like that...
You gave it to me!
And now you want it,
Back?
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I wish my heart to you was known.
With emotions deep.
I do keep within reach.
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I am waiting for you to disappear,
To enable me to miss you.
However...
I can not do that successfully,
...

You know what you are.
Did my validation,
Confirm your findings?
Did you take a survey...
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What's a goon?
Could that be someone
Who believes they have an intelligence
Gained from books and not from a sense,
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And you...
Have spent so many days,
From Sun.
All your nights have turned into one.
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Sweet meat cleaver...
May your sharpened blade,
Be swung to come down swiftly...
To silent false lips attached to crooked necks.
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Just do your deeds and be done with it.
Why struggle against ignorance...
When the force of it,
Can create powerful setbacks.
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They know what is going to happen.
And that is why it fascinates.
They know that danger lurks around.
And they are aware,
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I care about these people.
That's why I can say I like it.

I care about them...
...