What's going on?



Catfish
Carp
Trout

Llama
Sheep
Goat

Yak
Belgium Blue
(Texas Longhorn)

Pastrami
Roast Beef
Flank steak

Sweet yeast dough
( Apricot liquor, syrup and cream)
Sourdough
(:Chocolate, hazelnuts, cream)
Puff pastry
( Dark chocolate and banana)

Steelframe building with styrofoam insulation, riverstone walls, plyboard and sheetrock, with rough lumber trim

Pole barn,  stained and shalaced plyboards. Custom mantels, repurposed barn wood trim and sliding doors.
 
Shipping container, with plyboards, stained and poly-sealed,( four) four rooms, contracted to a small steel framed house.

Man in Tux( light purple)
Woman in gown, (tannish)
Happy because of cheaper price.

Man in black tux,Woman in black gown, mad about cheap price.

Man and Woman in tangerine tux and gown, bragging about expensive price.

About this poem

You tell me who's, happiest? Are they in love? What is this saying about the current state of affairs. What's going on, what's happening here?

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Submitted by allanterry542curtis_2 on July 18, 2021

Modified on March 09, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXB CXX XXX DXX XEBEDC X X X XAF F F
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 768
Words 122
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 6, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1

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