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It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

quote by Will Oldham
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Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

quote by Lance Morrow
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Those Same Obstacles Will Be There

Why should I go somewhere else,
To do and be who it is I am?
So many others have chosen to do just that.
Only to discover with a backtracking,
They still have no clue as to who they are.
Or for what purpose,
They live to exist to accept and not resist.

For some reason I have always known this.
To not backtrack to avoid facing facts.
And it didn't matter where I chose to sit.
Or be confronted with obstacles I know exist.
Realizing those same obstacles will be there,
No matter where one goes to confront...
That which opposes the being of who one 'is'.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Morphine

I painted a smile, just for you, all for you
I plastered it down, with hurt and superglue
I entered the room to breathe your pain
To share a moment we will never regain

I snapped one time at your morphine induced chat
And Lord knows how i suffer each day, for that
Even though (Lord) i no longer believe
I so
Wish i could, for mind relief

I found the bookmark you gave me
And
The words you wrote,
Tore me

'Im sorry Kazy, i shall stop talking now'

Im kazy the bitch, Kazy the cow

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poem by Karen Sinclair
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Disgruntled

He is not the first or the last...
To stun,
By telling what he knows is true.

Nor is he the only one...
To be labelled digruntled,
By those feeding delusion...
In their high priced silk worn suits!

He could have stayed,
And continued the betrayal...
In dismay.
But a sense of integrity,
He had to pursue.

And now he has been declared embittered,
By proclaiming
He and others have represented dishonesty.
And that was wrongly by them pursued!

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Brazen In The Sun

Brazen sometimes.
Accountable all times.
But you will never find me,
Absent from my mission!
And that has been defined.
So there is no need for you to help me,
Find my way.
Just get out of it!
My way is mine!
No wishes do I have to be escorted.
I have found what feeds my appetite.
After spending countless sleepless nights...
With discouragements and disappointments,
I have overcome.
If you must think of me as being harsh...
A little heated with a bit of a peppered tongue?
Do it!
I will never show you shallowness.
I am not that one!
I know what I need,

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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A love for neighbor

Love the neighbor
that is great honor
he will be first to attend
All may reach last including friends

the neighbor and guests are best
they stand the time and test
open your secrets and confide
Neighbor will know even if you hide

it is wrong to assume
no grudges and feelings to fume
if you know him to be near
there won't be any fear

Love the neighbor so to be close to Thy
there has to be no question as why?
rule or no rule he is there to rescue
relatives and friends may have no clue

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poem by Hasmukh Amathalal
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It Is Instinctive (Descending From Failed Ascents)

Cheapened and cheesed.
Those once fat cats,
With their Cuban cigars.
And crooked lawyers kept as pets.

From whom do they snatch,
Their flights of fancy.
And secrecy back?
When theft they've captured,
Has been recalled from stocked bags...
Packed and champagned.

From whom amongst them selected...
Can backtrack to those backstabbed,
With the sincerety of a puppy?
Hoping for a loyalty still maintained.

Some folks climb with only themselves in mind.
With delusions to control and be worshipped.

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Fret When You Lie

Fret When You Lie

You fall…, we rise..,
Oh no, there’s no need to apologize
You see, we are living life with a better capacity.
Your lips unfurl shaking cold from lies told and untold
You lips are quick to set fire to words evolved,
Beyond your comprehension you’ll find confusion and a haze

From my words intellectual you’re suddenly wrapped in a maze
For you broke my heart the bloody bits are spitting out
So your grave is the maze of words you refuse to uphold
Backtrack, retract, again a lie to escape your linguistic cage

Your mind the rat you the fly,
Forever searching for effervescent words to buy
To the links rattling the cage as an alibi,
Too much noise for me to retire, so your dreams I take and in front of you id set the torch to the paper,
Because I’m still the greatest yes the greatest, to hell with it lets set this cage on fire

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poem by Daniel Richards
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Nici In My Life

I stared at my little baby all through
the first night of her life, still in shock
that the little darling was part of me
and now lived and breathed on her
own, my life was not the same, so
much better with the little claimant
on my time and energy

If she cried incessantly I put her in
a kangaroo bag around my neck
and tilled the garden while bits of
dirt flitted down on her sleeping
face and I knew I had an angel
with me, I took her everywhere
I went, especially the library

She surprised us when it came out
she told the teacher her mother said
she need not learn at school, I had
to backtrack and explain that society

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poem by Margaret Alice Second
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