Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

One deciding to pick another,
To initiate a game to play...
Should,
At least...
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Deceptive images given,
To depict someone's innocence...
To gain sentiments of empathy,
With a wide acceptance to have this believed...
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I have no desire to 'acquire' honesty.
I am honest and this offends pretenders.
Those not yet willing to accept the directness,
Of what a freedom obtained gives to them.
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Not many can sleep,
When chased by facts.
And when those facts once unleashed,
Will do just that as if on attack.
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The use of highly polished and gleeming gloss,
Buffed over defections to keep them undetected...
With hopes of keeping them unsuspected,
To diminish from a scrutiny for all to see...
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What dilemmas can be solved,
If the proof of truth is not involved?
Or sits in places unfaced and hidden,
Away from a table that should enable...
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I am indeed,
One to be believed.
Since fresh I keep my responses.
With no need to seek reasons,
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I 'is' what I 'is' too.
But there is an acknowledgement,
Coming from a knowing of that.
I have had to accept a self examination,
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If not for those incredible sounds of Motown.
Jimi Hendrix.
Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
The Birds.
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Bigotry, intolerance and racism does exist.
And those among the self righteous,
Adorned with valued hypocrisies...
Can not bring themselves to admit,
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