Analysis of Punishment Dismissed
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
I remember experiencing,
To witness and observe to see...
A punishment quickly administered,
With a doing of it publicly.
For having told a lie to not apologize.
And this to make known to children.
Children,
Not yet grown to value alibis and excuses.
Those were the days,
When neighbors believed themselves parents.
To every child they saw to see.
And paid close attention to what they heard,
Or thought they heard to hear.
Done to immediately report,
To the actual parents of these kids'...
Disrespectful activities.
Today?
A seeing something to say something,
Witnessed to observe out of the ordinary?
Could end long lasting friendships,
Family relationships.
And neighborhoods ruined,
By truth told to tell it like it is!
These days?
Deceivers are paid to lie.
Exaggerating reality is encouraged.
And school age children are prevented,
From reading books about their own history.
By the ones censoring truth and its reality.
Fearing that their children,
May become threatened to fear...
Their deluded lives already fictionalized.
As they attempt to get as high as they can...
Trying their best to not come into contact,
With fairy-tale tellers.
Dressed up everyday in masquerade,
To charade a pretentiousness that imitates...
False appearances.
Hoping for approval and acceptance,
Has been successfully achieved.
This is the nonsense gone to dismiss,
As needing punishment.
For the damage this has mentally done.
To the minds of today's children.
Stripped away,
From the ability to use common sense.
Independent thinking.
And a thought process focused,
On looks, impressions to make.
With sex to have as enjoyed to see,
By products sold on TV.
That immediately satisfies their gratification.
This to condone by parents and others,
Living isolated in their own 'twilight zones'.
Are desperately in need of punishment.
For their attempts to restrict all minds to limit,
To an immaturity their children won't accept.
'Are you people NUTS!?'
'How dare you talk to us like that.
We are your parents.'
'And I am approaching 50 years old.
What on Earth makes you believe,
Your thoughts are going to stop me...
From living my life?'
'Can't you see how wrong it is?'
'When was this noticed?
Yesterday?
Or the day before?'
'We don't approve of your insolence.
Rude and disrespectful behavior.'
'You can always move out of MY house.
Or had you forgotten who pays the bills!'
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,383 |
Words | 475 |
Sentences | 52 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 7, 17, 12, 5, 1, 2, 4, 1, 3, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 72 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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