Analysis of Damaging Toxins

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



How best can we free ourselves,
From an internal dilemma?
Without performing a national enema.
To declare it a mandate.
Done to cleanse our minds and bodies,
From damaging toxins.
Disease creating toxins.
That has poisoned us from head to toe.
Inside and out.
With a need to have it released.
Let go to be gone as this crap flows,
Into contaminated and sealed...
Barrels of buried waste.
Where everyone knows what it is.
And what it does.
When people feast to nurture,
Upon ignorance and not common sense...
That welcomes a self loathing to defend.
With a doing,
Making them mentally sickened.
And...
Attacking all facts to believe,
Their lives have been threatened...
By truth and its reality.
Hoping...
A way of life to have had fictioned,
Can be restored back to a time...
Before the progress of technology,
Could not reveal...
Any evidence to find and with proof,
Of dragons being slain...
By a swinging of a sword bearing warrior.
Or rocks thrown to stop giants,
From trespassing on land...
Stolen by those squatting.
Wherever they wanted.
Whenever they wished.
With a doing,
To declare themselves Pilgrims.
Settling on a rock they named Plymouth!


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Poetic Form Etheree  (25%)
Tetractys  (23%)
Metre 11111001 11010010 010100100100 101101 111101010 110010 0101010 111011111 0101 10111101 111111111 01010001 101101 1101111 0111 1101110 0110001101 1100110101 1010 10110010 0 01011101 111110 110110 10 01111111 11011101 010110100 1101 1010011011 110101 101010110100 1111110 11011 101110 010110 01011 1010 1010110 1001011110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,153
Words 236
Sentences 30
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 40
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 899
Words per stanza (avg) 196
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Submitted by lpahtillah on November 23, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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