Pharmaceutically Tested
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Conscious about race?
Ethnic heritage...
And impressions to make?
Are you one seeking status?
And concerned about being accepted?
By any means necessary.
Regardless of apparatus used.
And...
How you dress and where you work?
Have you been convinced,
After 90days you're deserving...
Of a much needed raise in pay?
How about,
What you drive and age of it?
What you are paid lacking more benefits?
Do you feel intimidated,
When discussing schools you attended?
With degrees given barely earned?
Oh, the lies we tell with more to churn.
To learn nothing about what deception,
Returns!
Are you taking medications?
Just to numb reality...
To keep away hours each day?
Then...
If not,
Why is it do you seem to have...
This attitude you claim not racist.
Yet on a daily basis,
You bring up the topic...
The color of one's skin?
And a diversified World,
We all live in!
Then...
All discussions end,
With you declaring yourself 'Chosen'!
You must have been overdosed,
By a feeding on too much fiction.
Something has made you,
To depend and defend...
Your need to rely upon being crazed.
As a way to make excuses.
For denying to be out of your mind.
Has something snapped in your head.
Making you whacked out!
Are you afraid to admit this publicly?
And...
Fear disappointing those you support,
Endorsing experimental pharmaceuticals.
Specifically to test just on you.
Is this the reason,
You believe you have been 'Chosen'?
With an ease to persuade,
Manipulate and bamboozle you too!
In one way or another,
We all have been mentally abused.
Since it is the dollar.
And not the mind these days,
That has become a terrible thing to waste!
But...
If nothing else,
This I want you to know...
From my victimized side of the fence!
I ain't mad atcha!
Not me.
You got it going on!
Drugged up, deluded and living to be,
Fed to feast on fiction!
Go 'head wit cho bad self.
I've only been picked to disparage,
Disenfranchise.
And historically use,
To have others feel better...
About themselves and the wrongs they do,
To others they lie to themselves to deny!
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Submitted by Lp,jr. on October 28, 2021
Modified by Lp,jr. on October 28, 2021
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