Analysis of More Attractive Than Reality
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Money rumored to have.
Yet...
None seen sought to see,
Has not stopped trained gold diggers...
From sniffing around for its evidence.
Whether verified or not.
And even told rumors sold has more value,
Than truth to tell it.
Running through the streets.
As naked as a hairless gorilla.
No one can make anyone or anything,
Anywhere on Earth.
Can stop breath to breathe like a dollar!
And...
Appear more attactive,
Than reality and its proof produced.
With facts ignored.
Left to leave behind and kept disbelieved.
'Embellishments.
Fictioned exaggerations!'
'Oh?
There are people today.
In the year 2022.
Yelling about a fear of being replaced,
By another race.
And the image of their faces,
Appear everywhere.'
'Lies!
Like where do their faces appear everywhere?'
'Cartoon characters.
Any product advertisers market to sell.
Over radio waves and all media they control.
And every dime, nickel...
Or penny pinched to spend.
Has their image on it.
To believe it theirs to take or steal.
And this they do with every law they create.'
'There you go.
Always trying to confuse the issue,
By introducing truth.
And you and I both know,
Truth has nothing to do...
With denial, self deception and fiction.
It should be obvious to you as it is to me,
That people these days...
Have been made to become upset,
By theories to imagine...
A rewriting of their own history.
That might change those feelings,
They hide and fake inside themselves.'
'Oh?
Geeessshhh.
Then why don't they just come out and say it?!
By now?
Who is left incapable to smell the B.S.,
For what the B.S. is!
There are more needed products,
Imported from a variety of diversed...
And ethnic countries.
Than exported from this one.
Few other countries want.'
'Oh, yeah?
What about our motorcycles, jeans...
Sports, entertainment,
Movies, videos and cartoon shows?
And don't forget,
Comfortable chairs.'
'But no one does that better.
That's why we are the best at it.
We are not great for no reason at all!'
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (34%) |
Metre | 101011 1 11111 1111110 1100111100 101011 01011011110 11111 10101 1101010010 111110110 1011 111111010 0 0111 11001101 1101 11101011 1 10010 1 111001 001 1001011101 10101 00101110 0110 1 1111100110 01100 10101001011 1010101100101 0100110 110111 111011 101111111 011111001101 111 110101010 10101 010111 111011 10101010010 1111001111111 11011 11110101 1101010 0010111100 111110 11010101 1 1 1111111011 11 11101001101 11011 1111010 01010010011 01010 1010111 110101 11 101101001 1010 101000011 0101 10001 1111110 11110111 1111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,970 |
Words | 415 |
Sentences | 60 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 18, 2, 7, 2, 8, 13, 11, 6, 3 |
Lines Amount | 70 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Written on May 29, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on May 29, 2022
Modified on April 23, 2023
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