Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

In it from the beginning!
With first steps taken and a curiousness.
Yes,
In the beginning...
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I 'use' to wish this,
But I didn't attend...
Or graduate,
Like a few I once knew...
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Feeding on the things you want,
Undaunted.
And doing it to flaunt?
With hopes to generate stares,
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For those who have chosen,
To isolate themselves,
With a rush to abandon others not like them.
And awaken one day,
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Imperative.
And yet...
The importance of it fades.
Initiating one's escape from laziness today...
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Fed on concepts that have gotten them into ruts.
And they are stuck.
Like flies glued to a dead horse's butt.
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Almost but not quite,
Prepared to leave behind...
All remnants of doubt,
Completely with a clean slate...
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Have my childish naughty deeds,
Left me to be considered foolish...
And elementary.
By a desire to feel accountable.
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I've begun to notice those same people,
Were standing on this corner yesterday.
And now they are on that corner.
What's going on?
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Into a zone I own and claim.
And not only am I featured...
But I'm there in every scene.
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