Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

You have image with a sense of fashion.
You are cordial and appear to be accessible.
And you are social in a variety of public settings,
With a display of humor and wit on several topics.
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Take a survey.
None of the polls are consistent.
In some thriving neighborhoods,
People have never heard of those...
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When people deluded,
Have also been fed validation...
That supports their beliefs,
Everything they fantasize...
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Why does anyone believe,
Someone's originality...
Can be successfully reproduced.
As if in the doing of theft,
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Manipulative and calculating.
With a display of their failures achieved,
Are those fed with beliefs...
That being deceitful leads to success.
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Why should my disinterest shown in you,
Be now of your concern?
You kicked me to the curb to be among the elite.
And I've gotten over it; you and my feeling of self defeat.
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Up from sitting on stoops in projects,
I can glow clear and bright...
As a star at night in the cloudless sky.
And visit a full Moon,
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People cementing their relationships with others,
With a masquerading of their dishonesty...
To have others perceive them to be upfront,
And righteous.
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You left me sore,
Battered and bruised.
Feeling used to then be dissed.
To then hear from you say,
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Do not seek me for a caring done,
To compare to your own feelings...
You now experience with a deepened,
Feeling of being left distraught.
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