Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Keep applying the smelling salts!
Some are coming around.

Those standing on their feet...
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Madness driven and pushed to the edge.
Everything they believe in lays crushed and dead.
A compromise can not be reached!
They seek a singeing that burns within.
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If mediocrity is selected as a favorite flavor,
Of the majority of people raised to praise ignorance.
Then mediocrity it will be,
To smother the influence of those most capable.
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I know why I am not included,
In your conversations.

Most of the time I am ignored.
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To sit on pedestals,
May be heights some wish to achieve.
But as for me...
Why should I place such limits on myself?
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Have you ever stopped to take stock,
By inventoring those who remain as adversaries?
Those who took their time to find 'something' wrong you did?
And over the years and in retrospect,
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I express my thanks to all,
Who offer their comments...
That are analytical,
With indepth perceptions.
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I use to think of it as inclusive.
Those with appearances,
Of a similar and familiar physicalness...
Immedicately identifying,
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To my Facebook 'friends'...
Any time a smearing is done,
To defame and backstab anyone.
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What your needs were.
And what mine are,
Have not changed.
I am sure.
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