Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Strategic is the tactic,
To set a trap and capture.
With a hunting done,
To lure someone...
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Did you think I was chasing you?
Is that it?
And that led you to perceive you should begin,
Playing hard to get?
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Whatever is,
Or has been...
The most significant thing in one's life,
And this one has prioritized?
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If you can't see it in the East.
And it can't be seen in the North.
So you look about in the West,
To declare that the South is best.
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Taught to shy away from those,
Amongst themselves most qualified...
Has left them in their dire straits.
And now they witness their qaulity of life,
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I am thankful and feel tremendously blessed.
But I would not suggest you prolong the flattery.
Or attempt to victimize me with a deceiving tongue.
I've been around a few blocks.
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The act of participating in rituals,
Has become more important...
Than why those rituals were established,
In the first place.
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Give you WHAT?
Time?
Whose?
Mine?
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I did not invent motivation.
Nor was initiative,
Sitting in a variety store...
Wishing that it,
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One day cynics and their sarcasms,
Will no longer exist to be disregarded...
As ones displaying their envy and bitterness,
To depict their observations...
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