Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

If anyone can hop on one foot,
Dared by someone to do it...
Why would this same person complain,
About a path they have chosen to follow?
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Phenomenons studied by scholars,
Are...
Stunning phenomenons never undone.
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We celebrate that which uplifts,
With a premeditated anticipation.
And that which we should treasure most of all,
Is taken for granted.
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I may more represent,
Each color of the rainbow...
With no giving of a benefit,
Many will express to openly admit.
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As soon as you get the picture,
After it has downloaded in its entirety...
In your mind that's beginning to broaden.
And you have matured enough to comprehend.
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Here!
I have decided it was easier for me,
To return this bucket with your miseries...
Than to keep you with beliefs,
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I was told as a child,
That money did not grow on trees.
And as soon as I accepted the concept,
Of earning it...
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If I was told by another,
Something I had not researched myself...
To declare as fact.
And I went ahead to whisper into the ears of others,
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How can anyone surrounded by decadence,
Be expected to be innocent of anything?
And how old can one's pretentions get,
Before they too begin to smell like curbed garbage?
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This I'm sure will be found...
I'll be around.
No matter what is done,
By those who spite it.
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