Invitation To Failure Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Tainted pictures to paint,
With a scheduled exhibition...
To market and sell goes quite well,
When a selected demographic is told
What is available.
And reasonably sold.

An invitation to failure.
Exclusively sent and unexpectedly,
Received.
Will always attract,
The ones deceived and incensed...
By subliminal images intended,
To depict what isn't obvious.
But sold to the mind to imagine.
Until it is created to happen.

'I didn't realize my life to live,
Had been that bad.'

-Wow! Me either.
Let's go see just how bad off,
We are.-

'I'm sold.
And while we are at it,
Let's protest...
Before we arrive to go inside.'

-That would be disturbing the peace.
And people may call the police.-

'The invitation we got,
Already did that.'