Sabotage

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



It is not advisable nor wise.
To blindly follow the guidance,
Of anyone who suggests...
Or recommends sabotage.
Ultimately that diminishes,
The quality and existence...
Of their own way of life.
Providing them benefits.
And democratic entitlements,
Many receive almost free to have.

Especially,
Against the ones...
Who have personal relationships,
Established and obtained...
With the banker, the baker.
The candlestick maker.
The farmer who plants,
And harvests the crops.
Purchased to buy at grocery shops.
Bought to feed themselves,
And families.

Yet...
Will consider sabotage,
As a way to starve...
Their minds of all reality.
And the fruits of being conscious.
Just to prove and prevent diversity,
From destroying an image idolized...
Fed upon fiction to delude,
A truth unable to face it!

And these are the days,
Of our crazed lives.
Many are convinced...
Should be their way to 'normalize'!
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Submitted by lpahtillah on April 23, 2021

Modified on May 02, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXCXBXXXX DXXXEEXFFXX XCXDXDXXX XXXA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 864
Words 142
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 10, 11, 9, 4

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