Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Those who pick up their telephones,
Calling around to those they 'befriend'...
For any clue or hint,
From anyone...
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Hollow flatterers,
Do absolutely nothing for me.
Maybe because I've observed them before,
From childhood.
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You don't like what I say.
Or the topics that I write.
You don't like my performance,
When I recite?
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Like everything else they have manage to do,
That lacked compassion, commitment, devotion
And a focused seriousness with discipline.
They have expectations to achieve successfully,
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Those guilty seem to always display,
Their hypocrisy.
I'll repeat that!
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I have been that book!
Looked upon and judged by its cover.
I have been that one discussed.
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I don't participate,
In one-up-manships.
There is no benefit I see from it.
And what in return does one get?
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It is amazing what we buy to eat.
And feed upon to treat.
As if in the digesting
The heights of mental nutrition,
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It shouldn't.
But it does...
Sit,
Within my consciousness.
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The worse thing about stumbling,
Is trying to make it not appear
As a fall!
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