Analysis of Choices, Obligations With Pay

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



As choices and decisions are done,
To choose and make them.
Some do this to believe,
Whichever direction made to do this...
Is a personal and individual journey.
Needing no one to explain,
The why and to who...
This doing may affect.

However...
If one has committed,
To others to play together as teammates.
With this to entertain,
Under the heat of a game played.
And paid to do it.
In public display.
With a spotlight on them focused.
An explanation is owed,
As to why and to who...
Their choice to choose a decision made,
Emotionally affects...
Teammates, a paying crowd entertained.
Caring less about a player's decision,
If a decision to commit...
With payment given.
To assume their 'personal' actions taken,
Is unnecessary to explain.
Done to believe,
They can do what they please!

'Uh...
I respect what you do.
As a team player when that us done.
However...
When the spotlight is on you,
I think you are terrific.
But I must admit,
Tolerating your ignorance...
Is not the reason,
You were picked to play 'our' game.
Or paid,
To believe your personal life...
Is okay to do as you please.
Without at least giving us a hint,
Or a clue.
As to how we should feel.
That affects us too!'

' I don't understand what you mean.
I was hired to do for you what I've done.
What more do you expect?
Me to document my every move?
Then explain to you,
My choices to choose too!'

'Well...
Remember that contract you signed?'

'Yes.
Of course I do!'

'Before you signed that bottom line,
You should have read the contents of it...
First!'

'That's what I paid my lawyer to do!'

'Oh.
The one who shoved the pen in your hand?
Then smiled broadly.
While you stood,
Grinning as if...
You were relieved of obligations?!'

'Obligations?
Obligations to what?'

'Commitments to obey.
The rules to follow them.
And...
Whatever we say.
To like or not!
As a TEAM player.
With pay.
Capital P-A-Y!


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (39%)
Metre 110001011 11011 111101 0100101111 101000010010 1011101 01011 110101 10 111010 1101101011 11101 10011011 01111 01001 1011110 101011 111011 111100101 010001 1010101 10101010010 10010101 11010 10111001010 10100101 1101 111111 1 101111 101101111 10 101111 1111010 11101 1001100 11010 10111101 11 10111001 1111111 011110101 101 111111 10111 1101111 11101111111 111101 1110011001 10111 110111 1 0101111 1 1111 01111101 111101011 1 111111011 1 011101011 1110 111 1011 10011010 010 01011 010101 011101 0 1011 1111 10110 11 100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,795
Words 345
Sentences 57
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 8, 20, 17, 6, 2, 2, 3, 1, 6, 2, 8
Lines Amount 75
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 127
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted by Lp,jr. on October 12, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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