Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Strange are those days,
I see changing.
Strange,
Are those appetites.
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You study to create and generate what?
And which of your deeds have you benefited most?
Is it your cloak and dagger specialty?
The duck-as-I huff version of your simplistic debates.
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Nobody here appears who they should be.
And some are heard saying,
They're quite alone.
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A history kept that has been embellished,
And exaggerated when told...
Eventually weakens a diminishing society,
By those who choose to battle to keep...
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Image with pomp and circumstance,
Seems to have been diminished.
A taste of life that one wishes to feel,
Has risen high on priority lists.
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Vague expressions of directed hatred,
To generate a protest...
By those encouraging the spreading of distress,
Has those who began this agitation quite upset...
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Economically,
They have kept themselves detached.
Preferring instead,
To pick up paychecks...
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Whatever mind you say,
You are comfortably in...
I recommend you apply,
For a formal leave of absence.
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We have become alerted,
For enemies of all kinds to attack.
And we are instructed to look for them,
In movies or TV.
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What has been subjected to fear,
Has always been manufactured.

It has always been that way,
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