Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

It's going to take a lot of patience and hard work,
To get this crap corrected.
It is unbelievable how conscious people sat,
Knowing that their lives...
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IF they can ruin themselves
And their own fellowmen.
Destroy families and friends
For a dollar bill whose value
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They wished to dig up dirt.
But I was the one,
To reveal that first.
I knew I was far too deep for them.
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Only you can take me,
To love...
And keep me there.
I am so aware,
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Before the 'shock and awe'
There were trinkets tossed
To send them shopping.
That 'stimulated' them,
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Feed them trash.
And they will love it.
Overwhelm them with brilliance...
And they will be stunned.
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It only begins to hurt those,
Who applied misdeeds...
'Now' feeling themselves bleeding.
It only begins to hurt...
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I wanted to be that.
But I couldn't.
I had to be this...
And that would resist it!
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I am not daring you at all!
I dare myself!
I wish to stretch,
From enclosed boundaries.
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How is it possible to lay blame,
And not profess to be near...
To claim involvement?
How is it possible to own reactions...
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