Analysis of Thoughtful Irrational Actions

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



We seem to do our very best,
To protest against any tarnishing...
Of our image to state and display it,
As great as the taste of grandma's...
Delicious homemade apple pie.
Done to debate and argue over,
Which apples were selected and picked...
To create the craving of that deliciousness.

We go out of our way to have it believed,
No other people on GOD'S EARTH...
Are on a mission to be peacekeepers.
And ethnically diversed.
For the World to observe witness and see.

Yet...
Technically behind the scenes,
This wholesomeness to prove...
Done effectively internally?
On these shores of democracy.
Has its flaws and blemishes to correct.
Upsetting the many who prefer to keep,
Their dirty laundry hidden.
Underneath a fiction,
To deny such depictions.

Conflicts in need to be prioritized,
And honestly addressed.
Are perceived to be wounds,
To have long gone and healed.
But there are those left,
Unable to accept intentions meant...
A doing of the right thing.
Done to do at its best.

And if the right thing to do,
As decades and centuries...
Have come to go.
At least we have been told,
By those who show to make it known...
Who is entitled to excuse,
Anything wrong they do to choose...
A blaming on someone else.
Thoughtfully.

'It seems those enemies we created,
Are upset and confused...
As to what they should do and believe.'

'Why?
Didn't they get the memo?
We are going to provide them safe,
And peaceful passage to other shores.'

'Yeah.
That memo the did receive.
But several at the airport,
Are claiming they have 1st class seats.
And others are producing documents,
That prove them to be vegetarians.
With meals prepared
By their personal chefs.'

'So...
What's the problem?
I don't understand.'

'Well...
It seems their chefs,
Enjoyed being labeled terrorists.
And refuse to leave behind,
Those wide TV screens we gave to them.'

'What is going on?
I don't believe this.'

'I didn't either.
Until I saw them myself.
Arguing over...
Who between them,
Got better TV coverage.
Portraying themselves as evil terrorists.'

'Okay!
I have had enough.
Call the authorities at the airport.
And you tell them,
Regardless who is or not vaccinated.
Either to board those planes.
Or stay where they are.
TV coverage or whatever.
I have had it with all of this B.S.
And...
Do your best to be as thoughtful,
As you possibly can.
We don't want our image,
Further damaged.
That's all we need,
Is our patriotic citizens back home...
Grieving over how we left our enemies,
Abandoned.
Without airlifting them to safe shores.
These times we live,
Call for thoughtful irrational actions.'

'How are you going to explain this?'

'Before or after,
Our trip to Disneyland?'

'Boss?
It's called Disney World now.'

'Yep.
It sure is.
Disney's World.


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Poetic Form Etheree  (33%)
Tetractys  (29%)
Metre 111110101 110110100 11010110011 1110111 01011101 110101010 110001001 101010111 111110111101 11010111 110101110 01001 1011011001 1 10000101 110011 101000100 11110100 1110100101 01001010111 1101010 01010 1011010 010111010 010001 101111 111101 11111 0101010101 0101011 111111 0101111 1010100 1111 111111 11111111 11010101 1011111 010111 100 1111001010 101001 111111001 1 101101 111010111 010101101 1 110101 110101 11011111 0101010100 111110100 1101 111001 1 1010 1101 1 1111 011010100 0011101 111111111 11101 11011 11010 011111 10010 1011 11011100 01001110100 1 11101 100100101 0111 01011111000 101111 11111 11100110 111111111 0 11111110 111001 1111010 1010 1111 11001010011 101011110100 010 01101111 1111 1110010010 111101011 01110 101110 1 111011 1 111 101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 2,644
Words 485
Sentences 75
Stanzas 17
Stanza Lengths 8, 5, 10, 8, 9, 3, 4, 8, 3, 5, 2, 6, 21, 1, 2, 2, 3
Lines Amount 100
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 123
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted by lpahtillah on August 27, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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