Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Rescued from sleaze and teasing.
Once bottled up in guilt and shame...
And clamped to pain,
As a goal one chose to pursue and aim.
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So busy they were...
Actively preventing others,
From living lives those greedy denied.
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There is one thing some have yet to discover about impatience.
So I am told.
Less thought with implusive action...
Has a longer unexpected regret span of time,
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I am here.
To come to You,
Just to be in Your presence.
Here to be near.
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Why do you look down in the dumps?

'It has been discovered my mother,
Allowed me to walk around in a dirty diaper.
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I would say the other one.
Not 'that' one.
But the older one.
He has the more experienced presence.
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Subjected to the essentialness of things.

There is a mood that dictates,
The essentialness of things.
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Some achieve acclaim and fame.
While others succeed in acquiring notoriety.
And yet there are some,
Sitting without wishes to want none of it!
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'We will seek them out,
In their hiding places.
We will reveal who they are!
And you will know their names.'
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Mommy...
Who are they in those cages?

'They are the ones,
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