Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Ladies and gentlemen,
Our selection committee...
Has picked someone,
Who can relay...
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From my assessment,
To have observed.
After being served,
The most delicious oxtails.
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Explaining away the obvious.
Which has its obvious origins,
Rooted in historic guilt.
And smothered insecurities.
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Diversity as is,
To have lived it and enjoyed.
Attracts greed feeding money leechers.
Seeking condos and chic restaurants.
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More than many,
Have grievances to validate.
Most spending their entire lives,
Living them as if they should qualify...
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Claiming to defend,
Their entitled birthrights.
Hired rioters,
From distant suburbs.
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Victims should not feel obligated.
Or made to feel their wounds inflicted.
Perpetuated and intended,
By the ones coming purposely...
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Mother Nature.
Always seems to find a way.
To grab the attention.
Without a word to say.
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We all have come,
To live these days.
Listening to hear,
Increasing excuses made.
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It may come to annoy,
The truth as presented.
In the way that it is.
But kept ignored,
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