Analysis of Not Us! But Them, Those And The Others

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



And here we are.
Debating to argue,
Who has the right to do the wrong thing done.
With an entitlement to prove,
In what direction...
A defended ignorance should take and move.

And here we are,
Professing a greatness.
Yet choosing to refuse,
How and who did what to achieve it.
Since those in fear of losing an image,
Wish more to be the reflection that deludes...
An idolized symbol created to worship,
To maintain a fiction that excludes...
The participation of an ethnic diversity.
With this done to remove the truth,
From history.

And here we are,
Achieving deception.
Removing books from schools.
To replace with fantasies.
Done and determine to make our children,
Defend their right to stay fools.
And here we are,
Facing the facts of our own actions taken.
With a making of excuses,
As to why people today are crazed.
Although not us.
But those others we declare,
Have begun to destroy a way of life.
A way of life,
Created by those...
Who seem to wish to want,
The times when barbarians lived in caves.

'How much more of this can we take?'

'How much more of what?'

'Reality.
And the truth of it.
It's all over the place.
What has happened to our reality?'

'Which one?
The one kept fictioned to delude?'

'Yeah.
That one.
What has removed it,
From our normal way of life?'

'The Sunlight!
And the evidence of it that proves,
A turning away from it...
Does not change.
Especially when becoming aware,
Of having a consciousness.
That comes to arrive to notice at dawn.'


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Poetic Form
Metre 0111 010110 1101110111 11010011 01010 00101001101 0111 010010 110101 101111011 1101110110 11110010101 11010010110 101010101 0001011100100 11110101 1100 0111 010010 010111 111100 10010111010 0111111 0111 100111011010 10101010 111100111 111 1110101 1011010111 0111 01011 111111 0110100101 11111111 11111 10 00111 111001 111011010 11 0111101 1 11 11011 11010111 01 001001111 0100111 111 010101001 1100100 1110111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,479
Words 326
Sentences 37
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 6, 11, 17, 1, 1, 4, 2, 4, 7
Lines Amount 53
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 126
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Written on August 03, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on August 03, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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