Analysis of Entitled Rights

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



WHAT DO WE WANT?'

'OUR MINDS DUMBED DOWN.'

'AND WHEN DO WE WANT THAT?'

What a wasted expense it is to defend,
The ones endorsed to support...
Their ongoing right to feel entitled,
To be on the wrong side of the fence.
And using race to bait,
As a weapon to escalate....
Division and hatred.
In fear of a symbolized image to idolize,
Threatened by diversity.
An ethnicity on the rise does not disguise.

'WHAT DO WE WANT?'

'TWISTED BLIND MINDS!'

'AND HOW BLIND DO WE WANT THAT?'

What a waste of mental expense.
Spent to keep ignorance defended.
Only proving to reveal the threat.
That a competence of leadership,
Has run out of breath.
Taking with it common sense.
Too obvious to ignore,
The ones suppressed who lack it.
And the ones who oppress,
Their own lack to have consciousness.
While they all protest being upset,
By a truth fading to delude...
A fiction threatening their denials kept!

'Who is responsible for this craze?
I am willing to bet,
They are dictating this madness...
From a place that is guarded.
And well protected.'

'Anyone with that kind,
Of mindbending power...
You know is protected.
And regarded as their leader.'

'And we fear aliens threatening us,
From other Worlds?'

'Who observing this mess,
From other Worlds...
Could or would create more of a mess.
To then believe what we need,
Is to have themselves revealed...
As threats to a mess,
They did not create...
To have blamed on them?
That's why they do 'fly-bys'.
And within seconds quickly disappear!'

'Do they make attempts to try to convince,
Other aliens what they see here?!'

'If they are doing what they do,
And from a distance too?
Would you try to convince what we see,
As close as we are to it.
To know the reality of it is disbelieved?
I've already tried that.
And people look at me,
Like I'm the one that's crazed!'

'Well...
You do act a little spaced out at times.'

'I'm not gonna do it.'

'Respond.
To leave you telling others,
How out of my mind I am.'

'Alert! Bulletin! News Flash!'

'That's one reason why I don't like you!


Scheme A x b xxxcddefgf A x b cehxxcxijkhxx xhkee xlel kM jMjxxjdxcx xx nngiabgx xx i xxx x n
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 10111 011111 10100111101 0101101 110111010 111011101 010111 1010110 010010 01101010110 1010100 101001011101 1111 1011 0111111 10111001 111100010 101010101 10100110 11111 1011101 1100101 0101111 001101 11111100 11111001 10110101 01010010101 110100111 111011 1110110 1011110 01010 10111 1110 111010 00101110 0111001001 1101 101011 1101 111011101 1101111 1110101 11101 11101 11111 111111 001101001 1110111101 101001111 11110111 010101 111101111 1111111 110101111 101011 010111 110111 1 1110101111 111011 01 1111010 1111111 0110011 111011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,986
Words 391
Sentences 56
Stanzas 19
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 10, 1, 1, 1, 13, 5, 4, 2, 10, 2, 8, 2, 1, 3, 1, 1
Lines Amount 68
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 80
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted by lpahtillah on August 09, 2021

Modified on March 08, 2023

1:53 min read
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