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Skinny Dipping

You told me to go jump in the lake!
And after doing so,
I had a taste to demonstrate...
A desire to learn,
What it was you really wished.
Other than to see me skinny dipping.

You then hinted in pretense to be left alone.
And when I got home...
You called me on the telephone!

And I left it to ring, ring, ring.

You told me to go jump in the lake!
And after doing so,
I had a taste to demonstrate...
A desire to learn,
What it was you really wished.
Other than to see me skinny dipping.

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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What I Do Know

I'm not into pretense.
Or perceive elements of its benefits.
I see none.

Masquerading one's feelings,
To later expose them behind one's back...
Is sooo,
Uncool!
And those who do it,
Are sooo...
Unattached from integrity.

I could care less how many Bibles,
They quote scriptures from.
These folks are gutter dwellers.

I'm not into pretense.
Or perceive elements of its benefits.
I see none.

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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It Will Still Make Sense

You can read it as it is,
For the rest of your life!
And...
It will still make sense.
If it connects to a meaning meant.
And not condensed...
From the meat of the purpose.
And left as intended.

There is no pretense to delude sentiments.
Or to mask evidence...
Of a truth that defies,
Embellishments used...
To boost the attraction to seduce,
A deception produced with sweetened...
And/or spiced lies.

You can read it as it is,
For the rest of your life!
And...

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Traditions and Specifics

This journey I began,
Started for me many years ago.
So save your pretense and flattery.
They do nothing for my ego.

So regard my expressions,
Not poetry at all.
And by use of academic standards,
What I do does not fit a mold they can recall.

And I wonder if Shakespeare,
Or Maya Angelou or Langston would approve...
If Nikki Giovanni,
Said it differently than Sonia Sanchez.
Or if Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Thought Mark Twain...
Or Edgar Allan Poe were shallow poets?
And if she did...
What makes her or the others,
Authorities to know?

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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A Life Encounter in Shekomeko

Many a rides I have taken
Through villages barely awakened
Green grass and blooming flowers
Whispering willows at morning hours
My joy is never ending
Too many wondrous sights are blending
Into meadows and sleepy lanes
Sheep and cattle gleaming white fences
Leave bedazzled my senses
But there is no pretense
Driving through the village
I have never seen a Mensch
But what a surprise on that beautiful day
I will never forget that moment in May
Strutting the left side of the lane
Was Peacock proud and vain
He walked with a majestic stride
Gleaming feathers what a sight
Straight ahead was his gaze
After all Shekomeko was his place

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poem by Ingeborg von Finsterwalde
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To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

quote by Charles Churchill
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The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

quote by Aleister Crowley
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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

quote by H.L. Mencken
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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

quote by Mikhail Bakunin
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