Lawrence S. Pertillar America Poems

Oh beautiful it is to awaken each day,
To have choices to make...
And aspire to achieve to unlimited heights.
With a doing to have no one refuse what I like.
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The game players of America,
Are first bred in our neighborhoods.
They are conditioned to be gangsters,
Crooks and hoodlums.
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Even beauty to present it,
Is not without...
Its flaws and blemishes.
Behind,
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For anyone sold,
On racism to buy.
And invest in it.
Along with division and disparities,
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The greatness of America.
Has more of an ethnic face.
Than European.
And facts diminished to erase them,
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More are getting the time,
And opportunity to witness...
Mostly to disbelieve.
The true color of America's backbone,
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