Analysis of 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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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10011 10100 001011 1111010 0010110010 1101100 01010101 0 1110111 11101 1011010 10110101 101 1110111 1111101100 1110100 101011010 10110101 101111111 1110011010 01 1110010 11110 11011011 1 11 11111111 11011110 1101010 111010 010111 000101 1110 1 10101 110100110 111110 101011110 10111 101001 1110101101 10111010 1010111111 1101011 10111 11011011100 0 10101101 01000100100 010011111 11010 10111110 111101 0100111 0111010 111110001 111010 010111 11010100111 1 1101 111111 111001101 1111 11 111101 1101001011 111110 111111 110111010 001 0010001 1110110 010100111 11011101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,966 |
Words | 358 |
Sentences | 55 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 35, 5, 16, 16 |
Lines Amount | 75 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 314 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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