Analysis of Bogus Bowlers

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Be the monkey.
See no evil, hear no evil.
Or speak a word of it heard.
Be you the monkey.
Peeling a banana.
And staying away,
From those bogus bowlers breaking...
Rules disobeyed everyday nonstop.

Just observe them,
Setting up the pins to knock them.
Just observe them,
Behind the scene with rocks.
Pretending they are not false bowlers.
But not one bowling ball they've got.

Be the monkey.
See no evil, hear no evil.
Or speak a word if it heard.
Be you the monkey.
Thought to be stupid swinging from trees.
And having no interest in history.
Pretending not know,
Who deliberately deceives.

Day in and day out.
Watch those bogus bowlers play their game.
Unchanged to remain the same.

Day in and day out.
Watch those bogus bowlers seek a fame.
Done to claim.

Just observe them.
Setting up all laws to fraud.
Just observe them.
Wanting to win...at any cost.
While undoing every rule to obey.
Claiming themselves to save a game played.

Be you the monkey
Day in and day out.
Stay to be the monkey.
See no evil, hear no evil.
Or say a word about what you have heard.

'Uh...
We are happy you appeared before us,
Without being forced to do it.
Can you again tell us,
Just how you obtained...
The proof and evidence you have.
And remember the three of you,
Are under oath.'

'Yes.
Well...
We got tire of listening to allegations made.
Of fraud and corruption,
Going on in our neighborhood.
Especially the bowling alley.
Our beloved bowling alley.
An establishment we have known for years.
And so...
While sitting in a restaurant,
Munching on bananas.
One us came up with this idea,
To masquerade ourselves as monkeys.
And that's how we gathered,
The proof and evidence of corruption...
Conducted.
By those bogus bowling clowns.'

'Where are the balls?
Who had them?'

'That question we asked ourselves.
Apparently they felt no need to use them.
And right then we knew,
None they had in the first place.'

'You should be proud,
To be the monkeys you are.'

'We disguised ourselves as monkeys.
Real monkeys we are not.'

'Thank you for that clarification.
Will the court recorder,
Make that correction...
As a misunderstanding,
In what appears...
Not to have been costumes worn.
But a fantastic job,
Camouflaging their true identities.'


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Poetic Form
Metre 1010 11101110 1101111 11010 100010 01001 11101010 1011011 1011 10101111 1011 010111 010111110 11110111 1010 11101110 1101111 11010 111101011 0101100100 01011 1010001 10011 111010111 0110101 10011 111010101 111 1011 1011111 1011 1011101 10101001101 100111011 11010 10011 111010 11101110 1101011111 1 1110101011 01101111 110111 11101 01010011 00100111 1101 1 1 1110110010101 110010 10101010 01001010 10011010 1010011111 01 1100010 101010 111111010 101001110 011110 0101001010 010 1110101 1101 111 11011001 01001111111 01111 1110011 1111 1101011 101001110 110111 11110010 101010 11010 100010 0101 1111011 100101 100110100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 2,251
Words 492
Sentences 69
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 8, 6, 8, 3, 3, 6, 5, 8, 17, 2, 4, 2, 2, 8
Lines Amount 82
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Written on June 16, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on June 16, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

2:28 min read
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