Analysis of Disappearing Deceptions

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Who is it that teaches,
With it loudly heard to preach.
That racism, division and conflicts,
Are the main benefits...
To retain a healthy economy.

Who is it that has so many believe,
That a society based strickly...
On a system thriving on capitalism,
And materialistic greed to feed it...
Can have a few dictate,
How an ethnic diverse democracy...
Should be better represented,
If truth and reality...
Was eliminated from this image.
And banned to delude,
A fiction to present...
Appeasing to those pretentious.

Who is it that has twisted the minds,
Of the many who have chosen to define...
A greatness achieved,
Had been accomplished...
By those sitting on their behinds.
Mesmerized done to hypnotize,
Thoughtless unconscious minds...
Into an irreversible denial.

And...
Kept to perceive,
A power to grab it and this achieved.
Will not have an adverse effect,
On their own quality of life.
With it done to expect,
An economy...
Indebted to credit.

And money exchanged from hands,
Of every ethnic race there is.
Will continue to exist.
With people proving to have,
Neither competence nor common sense.
Or intelligence to prove,
An understanding to comprehend...
How a diverse society,
Based in the depths...
Of materialistic wishes.
Can still remain to stay that way.

When a few who have fictioned visions.
Focused upon a power to control,
Over those they depend.
In an interdependentness.
Yes!
An interdependentness!
Continuing this to observe and witness,
A mindset infectiously fed on image.
The appearance of it.
And the color of democracy.
Clearly disappearing of deception.

'We protest and oppose,
This 'coloring' of our way of life.'

'I see.
And your destruction,
Satisfies your right to do what?
Beg, steal or borrow?
With a power to demand that from who?
Puff, the magic dragon?'


Scheme AXXXB CDXEXBXBFXXG HXIXHXHD XCIJKJBL XMXXXXNBXMX XDNAXAGFEBO XK BOLXXO
Poetic Form
Metre 111110 1110111 110010001 101100 1010100100 1111111001 10010011 10101011000 0000101111 110101 1110010100 1110010 11010 101001110 01101 010110 01011010 111111001 10101110101 01001 11010 11101101 101110 10101 0110100010 0 1101 0101110101 11110101 11110011 111101 10100 010110 0100111 110010111 1010101 1101011 101001101 1010011 1010101 10010100 1001 10001010 11011111 10111110 1001010101 101101 011 1 11 01001101010 0111110 001011 001010100 100101010 11001 1100110111 11 01010 1011111 1111 1010101111 101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,797
Words 365
Sentences 43
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 5, 12, 8, 8, 11, 11, 2, 6
Lines Amount 63
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 175
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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Submitted by lpahtillah on February 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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