Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

People rather shop,
Than to stop to pay attention.
'Do they'?
And people rather wish,
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I am not the same,
To pretend changes I have made...
Have not been excruciating.
Or exhausting to attempt,
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You may want to see me,
Down and out.
Beneath and under shadows cast.
And you may spend a lifetime,
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Obtain that needed peace,
In the quietness that silence brings.

Know that moments in silence kept,
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Open up the window,
To realize how high the sky.
Open up that window,
To see what before you passes by.
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A tolerance that comes to sit with patience,
For those awakening to realize...
Their lives lived had been mostly disguised,
By a fantasized reality...
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You drive me crazy.
And I must,
Like...
The craze.
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So much of my life
Has little of you in it!
For you to insist
Your role is larger than that...
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Regardless who disputes,
Who sits in postions...
To be voted and picked as leaders,
In these 'United States Of America'.
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Ticket sales
Not ratings.
That is what moves
Most commodities.
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