Analysis of How Stupid Can Stupid Get?



When one's own native language,
Is not understood to comprehend...
There is much more than illiteracy,
Missing.
Allowing appearances to deceive.

Not always but often enough to notice,
There is someone to claim to know more
Than others with hands-on experience.
To later have their followers discover,
Someone like this...
Is in need of assistance.
And instructions as to how to use a key,
That opens a door...
To demonstrate what they know.
More to have claimed others do.

And those 'others' to have long known,
The difference between a dawning...
Of the Sun in the morning.
Arising upon the horizon.
And that same Sun beginning to set.
Created by a rotating Earth,
Giving this visual effect.
To notice by those conscious to observe.
Can be for some considered,
An obvious use of common sense done.

However...
There are many who will pay everyday,
To get as close as they can to accept...
And smell B.S.
Then volunteer their butts to kick.
As if this to receive,
Is the height of Honor to publicly witness!

'Tell me...
Why are people standing in line,
Awaiting to pledge...
Their allegiance to be humiliated?'

'Loyalty and devotion expressed,
For many is a blinding obligation.
Besides, not one to be living,
In this part of town?
I am still trying to understand,
How can so many folks live committed...
With entitlements given to them.
Not one to earn.
Yet still,
They seem unable to comprehend,
What to them is being told.
Or where to go,
To receive free opportunities.
Free!
And handed to them to begin,
The creating of their own success.'

'And...
Disbelieve this or not,
Those pledging for more humiliation...
Claim they are upset and protest against,
The ones they blame...
Taking jobs away from them,
They do not want and refuse to do.
How hard do nuts have to get,
Before that crap in their heads...
Become cracked open to release,
The rotting...
Of that rust collected nonsense!'

'It's a political social illiterate thing.
You know...
Who or whomever sits with a title?
No longer has to impress,
With a having of rehearsed intelligence.
Even those sitting in leadership positions?
Are determined to prove,
Themselves clueless.
And stupid decision makers.
Blessed to dupe.
As a gift received from God!'

'Oh?
And which God would that be?'

'That depends upon,
Political and religious affiliation.
Fraternity or sorority membership.
And the latest fictioned hero created.
To have created big buzz and bucks,
At some high priced box office.
With a doing to sellout...
Movie theaters across all continents!'

'Would you stop exaggerating,
With your cynic criticism.'

'Okay!
We'll just observe this together.
And not argue over a price to pay,
To sleep through an over hyped...
Attention grabbing pile of manure.'

'Great.
Talking about it,
Is a waste of time anyway.
And besides,
Arguing over the obvious is...
What's a better way to say stupid?'

'The past, present or future tense of it.'

'What?
Stupid is stupid.
But how stupid can stupid get?'

'I was never good with verbs.
And...
Isn't stupid a noun?'


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (29%)
Metre 1111010 1101101 1111101000 10 0100100101 1111001110 11111111 1101110100 11011100010 111 1011010 00101111101 11001 110111 1111101 01101111 010001010 1010010 010010010 011101011 01010101 10110001 1101110101 1111010 1100111011 10 1110111101 1111111101 011 1011111 111101 101110110010 11 11101001 01011 1010110100 100001001 1101010010 01111110 01111 11110101 1111011010 101001011 1111 11 11010101 1111101 1111 10110100 1 01011101 001011101 0 001111 110110010 111010101 0111 1010111 111100111 1111111 0111011 01110101 010 11101010 1001001001001 11 1101011010 1101101 10101010100 10110010010 101011 0110 01001010 111 1010111 1 011111 10101 010000100010 01001010010 0010110010 110101101 1111110 101011 10100011100 1110100 1110100 1 11011010 0110100111 1111101 010101101 1 10011 1011110 001 1001001001 101011110 0110110111 1 10110 11101101 1110111 0 101001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 3,049
Words 642
Sentences 77
Stanzas 16
Stanza Lengths 5, 10, 10, 7, 4, 16, 12, 11, 2, 8, 2, 5, 6, 1, 3, 3
Lines Amount 105
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 145
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted by lpahtillah on November 29, 2021

Modified by lpahtillah on November 29, 2021

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