Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Oh no.
You think I am not aware?
Do you think I am blind,
To what is going on in the atmosphere?
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Being an 'absentee' anything these days,
Is easier to do and accept...
Than to argue with those,
Awakening with accountable attitudes confessed.
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You've got to make me...
Baby!
Feel as if I'm part of your heart,
And not a maybe.
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Time has a way of shifting around,
That which had seemed to be grounded.
And found to be significant with influence.
Once upon a time,
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You want to play hopscotch?
That's fine with me.
I'll take a shot of that scotch.
With peppermint schnapps,
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Do me a favor?

'What's that? '
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Is it fair to enable,
Another who solicits it?
What dare is it to rock a boat,
When one can not swim.
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I don't do accolades.
Like the ones who do it.
With the giving of them freely.
I've been wounded too many times,
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To take a piece and rave about its taste,
While disparaging the creator...
After learning who it was,
Who spent the time in its delivery.
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The outlook on the horizon,
Seems to brighten as if to dawn.
With the rising of the Sun coming on.
Instead of a darkening done.
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