Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

It is difficult to escape the power held,
By those acknowledging a knowledge.
Once it is there and gets one wide awake...
All exits to get away from it,
...

Why are you doing that?

'In the celebration of Black History Month.
This is the only time of the year,
...

Once done...
And in retrospect,
As one reflects!
Being ostracized,
...

You want to come on the ranch,
And do a bit of hi-dee-hey.
You come expecting everyone to do,
What it is you say, yo!
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Cherished are my memories.
Especially the ones that were meant,
For me to sit and listen...
As my ego was stripped to bits,
...

Thank you class.
I am glad all of us here,
Have agreed to take pictures of ourselves,
As an assigment.
...

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.
...

You constantly would ask for my opinion.
And nothing that I have suggested,
Has stuck in your head like glue.
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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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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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