Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

The gifts I have been given,
Were to not keep to go unwrapped.
I had been taught that lesson,
Very early to escape being entrapped...
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Strickened with conviction,
Helps to replace...
Back pain and the carrying of weight,
Those with strapped on burdens...
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Short term memories manipulated to feed...
Upon long term needs,
With investments made on sand castles...
Can be successfully done.
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Peppered and salted is your tongue.
And you say you are saved.
Prepared and quick you are,
To assault and offend anyone.
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A quality achieve will not leave,
Because of how it is rated.
Or placed on a list.
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I remember once walking around,
As a child with an unchanged diaper.
I remember also getting low grades,
In math at an elementary school.
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Quietly swept in unsuspecting steps,
Towards concepts of totalitarianism.
With an autocratic rule set.
Leaving all freedoms deluded and state control.
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How creative,
Can a repetition get?
How innovative can a mindset become,
If that mindset is conditioned...
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Why obsess something that is relative?
Everyone has their own fetishes.
But I will say this,
Having that kind of a love for 'insects'...
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This I don't do...
Revisit old playgrounds.
Or regret that I have left them,
To adventure, explore and experience life...
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