Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

'Poppa...
What's reality? '

Come here, sweet baby!
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'D-minished! '

Plummeted is more appropriate.
Like a vanishing of prerequisites.
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...and,
When you are left in contemplation of the error...
Of how you perceive other people to be,
Maybe then,
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I do not wonder why,
Things are the way they are.
They are the way they are!
And I don't wonder why.
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Find fault with me.
I have been in preparation...
For dissections and critique.
When I began testing the waters,
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In denial?
Here...
Take these!
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Some do some don't.
While others may come,
To observe the latest in Fall fashions.
With no intentions of opening a book.
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Is life so dear?
Or peace so sweet!
As to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God!
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I think practicing safe sex is a good idea.
Especially today.
However...
Don't you think the use of rubber gloves,
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Help them identify the source of their ignorance,
Dear Father.
Help them see it...
And not become overwhelmed by its magnitude.
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