Analysis of Accommodating The Size Of It
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Discover its remembered pleasure.
At first the doing may hurt.
The comfort of familiar limits.
To accommodate the width and height,
Along with the size of it.
Not to realize once allowed,
A beginning of a trust...
Starting as if to quickly rush.
Inside of your mind and eyes widened.
Stretched to catch,
As much as you can get.
Of this awareness that comes to awaken,
Your expanding consciousness.
Experienced with a want to wish for more.
'I thought you gave up smoking?'
'I thought so too.
And then last night,
When the Moon was new.
It occurred to me,
How limitless without boundaries...
The Universe really is.
To allow myself to go back to my old habits.'
'What sense does that make?'
'None at all.
But there is one thing I do know.
If I should happen to stop smoking.
My consciousness,
May expand so much.
That a being down to Earth,
Might then prevent me...
I have control over,
Everything I do to enjoy the limits of it!'
'But...
Like the choices you make for yourself,
Are as limitless as the Universe is.'
'And that is frightening to know,
I can decide and choose...
To leave my comfort zone.
Without knowing what or who,
Is actually controlling over the unknown!'
'That's too deep for me.
I rather drink this wine.
Watch some TV.
Then go home and forget,
Who is doing what...
Why, where and when.
To blame the doing of a life I like,
On an economy to accuse it all on oil.
And the effects this has on the price of gas.
Done to not know,
How much gas they are causing me to have.'
'I don't find that funny.
Then to claim it's the food I eat.
With a paying more for it to get less.
Done to then tell me,
I should diet and exercise.
On an empty stomach.
To become healthier.
So my mind won't notice,
The high taxes I pay to look ageless.
It's all crazy.'
'But...
Less crazed it gets with nicotine!'
'I'll talk to you later.
I'm going home to meditate myself,
Into a hopeful deep sleep.
There's too much going on to drive folks nuts!'
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,969 |
Words | 450 |
Sentences | 52 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 13, 1, 7, 1, 9, 3, 5, 11, 10, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 67 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Written on July 17, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on July 17, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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