Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

You've lost your job and home,
The respect of your spouse...
And now your kids roam,
All over the place with hoodlums.
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At the risk of sanity,
A plunging leap is taken...
From comfort!
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Those impending signs of tragedy,
Have long ago been seeded.
Accompanied by the taste for greed.
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You 'are' an accomplice!
If you've ever advocated hatred,
With a division that inspires.
And you've expressed a choice,
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Once it has been discovered,
That more than a few...
Rather not be informed,
About what it is you do.
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Why are your commentaries,
So filled with angst and cynical rhetoric?

'I like the way you put that!
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Justified will be their own misdeeds,
Again!
And again...
Their pretensions will be sought,
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We are at a loss to explain how this could happen.
He had been an average child.
Who hasn't skipped school.
Maybe just every once in a while?
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Whalloped!
With a zinging zap that pows!
A punch comes with a knockout...
That wows and stops to awe a crowd.
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A shift in blame is in full force.
And those responsible,
For creating division...
Are, of course,
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