Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Why are you now upset?
You were the one to say
Those concepts were outrageous.
Now you are enraged?
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How a cohesiveness,
Can pull them together
From indeciveness...
Is a test.
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The choice to accept a common belief,
And not the work of research.
Has left so many in dire straits.
They who have chosen concepts...
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South Padre Island,
Ranks among the best.
South Beach,
And those along Key West...
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You wish to simmer in a love you missed.
And believing it can be delivered,
Without a chemistry
That attracts!
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Please do not dismiss me.
Or the approach,
I have chosen to get closer.
I am not professional at this.
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Those ungrateful,
And living to inflict sins upon one another...
Are soon to discover,
Much more than just discomfort.
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In 1952...
I took my first steps on a stage.
The Bushnell Memorial Auditorium...
As it was called in those days.
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Monkeys don't do hula hoops.
Unless they've been smoking weed,
Grown on the hills of the Himalayas.
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I touch.
I feel.
I see.
And I appreciate my life.
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