Analysis of Please Pinch Me Cheeks

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Whether found to find fortunate or not,
These mind awakening times to live...
Are definitely moving away and fast,
From a normalcy once to have...
Rules and laws with standards to value,
Upheld to follow and obey.

Today?
Captivating,
And given undivided attention?
Are those mentally ill.
Given support and endorsement,
For destroying the quality...
And a way of life,
To end their own entitlements.
For the purpose and intention to be seen,
As being in the majority that determines...
How sick those deluded,
With shallow fictioned minds can get.
Because of a created threat to fear,
The eliminating of their own worshipped...
False to praise,
Images to idolize...
The 'appearance' of greatness.

And...
The threat,
Of what is portrayed and false...
Being stolen away from them.
To be replaced by truth and its reality.

'Please pinch me cheeks.
Me cheeks disbelieve,
What's going on leaving many so numb.'

'Okay.
It's your call, my brutha!'

'Me said pinch me cheeks.
Not to pat me butt then pinch me face.'

'Me?
I visit here from the islands.
When you people come to us and visit?
And request massage?
You want face pinched,
To bring back youth.
Then butt to rub and pat,
Wishing memories to come back.
From past acts we try to do but can not.
Now...
What's going on to disbelieve?
Is the pleasure people receive.
Leaving the stunned to numbness.'

'Look.
People are being numbed,
By a way of life they disbelieve...
Is getting everyday more crazy.'

'I see.
And you,
Seek your butt pinched?
Face slapped?
Into an ecstasy,
That leaves you pleasured?
And...
This done to do for you...free?'

'I have already paid enough,
Deluding myself into a fiction frenzy.
How much would you charge me,
To pinch me cheeks until I awakened?'

'Turn around, why?'

'My fee depends upon,
How well you please...
My dimple fetish!'

'Are you MAD?'

'No.
Not yet.
Why?
Should I be?'


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Poetic Form
Metre 1011110011 110100111 11000100101 10100111 101110110 01110001 01 100 010010010 111001 10010010 10100100 00111 11110100 10100010111 1100001001010 111010 1101111 0110010111 0010011110 111 100110 0010110 0 01 1110101 10100111 111110110 1111 11001 1101101011 1 11111 11111 111111111 1 11011010 1110111010 00101 1111 1111 111101 10100111 1111111111 1 11011001 10101001 1001110 1 101101 101111001 110101110 11 01 1111 11 011100 1111 0 111111 11010101 01010101010 111111 1111011010 1011 110101 1111 11010 111 1 11 1 111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,884
Words 412
Sentences 56
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 6, 17, 5, 3, 2, 2, 13, 4, 8, 4, 1, 3, 1, 4
Lines Amount 73
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted by lpahtillah on January 31, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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