Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

You constantly would ask for my opinion.
And nothing that I have suggested,
Has stuck in your head like glue.
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It has become very easy for 'some' social misfits...
To blame their insecurities,
And atrocious misdeeds...
On the lack of attention given to them,
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How can we seek solutions...
When our denials love to bask,
In a pleasing done by deceit.
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When the dumbing down initiated,
Has been determined completed and done...
I am hoping to make at least eye contact,
With one or two who remain in a struggle against it.
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The information I received,
I got from you.
I'm only restating to you what was heard.
And now you say,
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Undone to undo...
Those passionate insights.
Individuality disconnected,
To a symbolic way of life.
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Am I narcissistic?
No, of course not.
Even though,
I have heard that said about me before.
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What is it going to take,
To see what it is...
For what it is.
And how it got that way,
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Smacked and slapped against the wall,
Is not magnifique.
Although some may just enjoy...
This touch of quick awakening.
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Shadows only shade,
Not produce a single light...
On a path one makes.
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