Analysis of Unpacked Baggage
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Carrying old chips on aging shoulders,
Can over time...
Bend a back with a head to lower down.
Closer to the ground,
Than ever before when a pettiness began...
An argument to start for nothing more,
But attention to get to wish wanted to receive.
Ignorance committed to hold onto,
Will decay a mind of using common sense.
The proof and evidence is everywhere.
As if gum chewed,
Sticking to the bottom of shoes...
While walking on any urban street.
Pretending to be distant,
From displays of existing stupidity.
Even children are caught up in the act.
Seeking revenge to return upon someone,
With a doing to double the hostility.
Done to perform,
What had been taught to them...
While watching TV.
As they listen to their parents,
Finding this time to comment...
About what they did as kids,
To prevent themselves being victimized.
Telling lies to exaggerate,
The fact where they actually ran to hide.
Too many these days,
Have chips on their shoulders.
And carry baggage packed on their backs.
In need to unpack fiction to delude,
Experiences they did not have.
And the ones who did have lives,
To experience the good, the bad...
The ups and downs,
Compounded by repeated rounds of ugliness.
Today...
Often appear the least likely,
To have had a worry or a problem to face.
Without having all their conflicts,
And obstacles chased away...
As rumors had been told heard to hear.
By those who know nothing more,
Than what they see on TV or at the movies.
To relive and embellish themselves as heros!
What has not happened,
Is an unpacking of baggage carried in minds.
Fictioned to delude living in times,
Their own ancestors, if alive and still living...
Will find it difficult to remember,
Having such experiences to admit existed.
While gathered around a radio.
Barely understanding,
What is said to announce by a broadcaster.
In the year 2023?
Journalists, videotographers and visitors,
In to war zones.
Not only are sending 'live' coverage,
Of these activities
But also interviews with soldiers,
Shooting automatic weapons.
While ducking missiles.
Between watching soccer matches played,
By women representing...
The United States and Viet Nam.
'...AND,
What is that funny,
To bring tears rolling down your eyes.
With a holding your stomach as if in pain?
Do you realize how serious these times are?'
STOP.
STOP IT.
Yeah.
I agree.
They are quite hysterical, aren't they?
You need not remind me.
Help me get up off the ground.
I don't want anyone to think,
I'm not taking what is going on seriously.
Oh...
You have no idea how much I enjoyed that!
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Metre | 1001111010 1101 1011011101 10101 110011010001 1100111101 1010111110101 1000101110 10101110101 010100110 1111 10101011 110110101 0101110 10110100100 1010111001 1001101011 101011000100 1101 111111 11011 11101110 1011110 0111111 1010110100 1011010 0111100111 11011 111110 010101111 0110110101 010001111 0011111 101000101 0101 010101011100 01 10010110 111010101011 01101101 0100101 110111111 1111101 111111111010 101001001110 11110 110101101001 11011001 11101010110 1111001010 10101000101010 11001010 10010 1111011010 001 10010100 0111 1101101100 110100 11010110 1001010 11010 011010101 110010 001010011 0 11110 11110111 10101101101 11101100111 1 11 1 101 1110100101 111011 1111101 1111011 1110111011000 1 111010111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,572 |
Words | 531 |
Sentences | 54 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 12, 18, 9, 11, 5, 11 |
Lines Amount | 81 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 249 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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