Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Let me put this in perspective for you.
Are you ready?
This journey began in 1952.
I was 5
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The marketing of flu,
Has become a multi billion dollar industry.
There is money to be made in creating vaccines,
By private corporations.
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Oh they've got their corks up now.
Overtaxed and burdened,
They can not relax.
Smack dab in the middle,
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If you are still here,
And I awaken screaming.
I have not experienced a nightmare.
I am just surprised,
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Claimed it is too painful,
To face the past some say.
Yet held within their grasp to hold,
Is that past they keep portrayed.
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The same people who exclaimed,
They will remain the same unchanged.
And down to Earth.
With a belief the doing of this,
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The issue raised that has created stagnation,
In some places facing dire consequences...
Has been the importance of nuts discussed,
Observed becoming loosened from their bolts.
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'Give us an image.
One that wont diminish.
How can we exist...
Unconsciously following into a total darkness? '
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There will come a time,
If it has not yet arrived.
When those who have found assumptions,
As an acceptable function with it done to do...
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Incompetence to define it,
Is quicker to observe these days.
Than explaining how it can occur.
And allowed to be possible.
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