Lawrence S. Pertillar

Some folks want to live,
And not contribute.
Consume and complain.
Talk about others,... more »

More to give...
Than a polished car repossessed.
Much more than a staggering mortgage payment...
Foreclosed,... more »

She had been asked to use her uterus,
To incubate the birth of someone else's child.
She was asked if she would keep it baked...
And to become a surrogate,... more »

It takes two quarters back to back
Of slow or no growth,
To qualify what we are not experiencing...
As a recession.... more »

There is a lasting benefit to growing up poor.
And dealing with the 'guts' of reality.

One carries a perception...... more »

I like those low things!
Those distractions that attract.
The ones glimpsed when passed...
That capture and grasp,... more »

Who else will I face,
To come into my life...
My Father?... more »

I am without sleep...
Most times.
Not from an unrest,
I can not explain.... more »

Your wishes to remove my thoughts...
Are as ridiculous,
As your demands to shut one's lips.
Or have someone produce something less offensive...... more »

Who are we?
And where do we go...
To have that revealed?
And when we do arrive,... more »

My eyes have you in them too much!
I catch myself in vacant stares.
Becoming helpless and aware I am noticed...
Being out of focus.... more »

Folks who have become accustomed,
To practicing their own genocide...
Are only prepared for their instant removal.
And they are not about to abandon,... more »

You wish for me to say something positive?
Okay!

You are positively in denial,... more »

Why do you wish to know,
What will happen tomorrow?
You are not living today,
To appreciate what tomorrow brings.... more »

On many levels you were told and shown.
In many ways,
The questions you now ask were raised,
And answered.... more »

I am often amused
By those who believe
Creative people are weak.
I never thought that myself.... more »

I know I am on no one's 'Favorite Things to Do' list.
It has been a long time since I've been twenty one.

I don't have money in the bank.... more »

Mama,
Why you put your cleats on?

'Gotta keep in the run, son.... more »

Do you see these words?
Each one I selected,
With you in my mind.
I took the time...... more »

They wish to touch their money...
But the looks of it has change.
They wish to claim all of it.
But something about the way it looks,... more »

They wish to depict...
Others as being threatening and wicked.
And yet...
They leave death.... more »

I know you would love to find me wrong.
And I would just love to find you...
Expressing an opinion,
That had a conviction you felt strong enough... more »

So addicted they are to playing childish games.
They believe their afflictions...
Are widespread.
And others who live have the same goals and aims.... more »

It is not hard to fight against those with limited visions.
They are clearly the ones,
Squinting eyes from being exposed to rays of light!
Fresh from out of darkness.... more »

Okay...
So we have different methods!
If someone steps on my toes...
I shoot them in the leg!... more »

You can to yourself,
Believe something is 'not' true.
But you can not openly say,
You believe something 'not' to be true.... more »

When is a fool a bigger fool than normal?
When he decides being just a normal fool,
Doesn't get quite enough publicity.
And hiding his ignorance,... more »

In a society where everyone has been left bent...
Or crooked by events,
That have shakened them from thoughts...
They were sold and bought,... more »

When one has lived without,
What one has never had to live with...
From the beginning!
It becomes difficult to use that as a weapon,... more »

How deep can discussions get,
With those in a constant fling...
With low life?
And the company enjoyed,... more »

more »

Don't be ridiculous!
Of course I find you delicious.
I want to slice you.
Put you on pumpernickle...... more »

We are just but thought and pure energy.
That is all we are...
Living within an entity.
And the concept of God isn't a physical being at all.... more »

Needless to say...
A way of life we wished conveyed,
Is outdated...
As it should be portrayed.... more »

Knock by mocking.
The clock will not stop.
Intimidate by shocking.
Your destiny becomes the one that's blocked.... more »

You seek from me,
What I seek from you!
Leaving our needs to be left weak,
From the seeking.... more »

Leave them to lay in the shadows.
To pollute in soot.
As the belching smoke...
From the bellowing choking chimneys,... more »

Something good could be had and last.
But some are too busy scrutinizing,
Things done...
In another one's past.... more »

No...
I have no interest.

'But I have yet to ask the question! '... more »

There is too much to appreciate.
And when one breaks away,
From having whims like children...
There is too much to appreciate,... more »