Analysis of Fresh Flesh
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Needless to say but said anyway.
Greed to feed on it fed,
Will always have its investors.
With a leaving mentalities,
Effectively infested.
And more this need to greed,
Becomes difficult to cure and heal...
A disease that welcomes an addiction.
To seek desperately that 'fix'.
So incredible this is,
To have this sickness regarded...
As a normal way to live.
With an unconscious willingness,
That makes us all...
Donate our heads to hit brick walls.
We must,
Develop better innovative ways...
To kill that cannibalistic beast within us.
Seeking to hunt fresh flesh to devour.
As a metaphor of course.
Hypothetically speaking!
'I had suggested,
A changing of our diets.
Years ago.
To become more vegetarian.
And not depend on so much meat to eat.'
'What are you talking about?'
'Your metaphor.
I've never heard of that animal before.
Is it in the beef or pig family?'
'Finish with your vegetarian explanation.'
'Well...
I was sitting having lunch one day,
With a friend.
And he said,
He was tossing and munching...
On this delicious fish salad.
To then hear it scream then giggle.'
'I think this friend of yours,
Was referring to something else.
And...
As usual,
I can rely on you to misinterpret reality.
Since I doubt your friend,
Meant vegetables had been tossed.'
'No!
Enough.
I am talking about what greed does,
To the minds of people to addict them.
Until nothing else is as important,
Than to kill themselves...
On false impressions to make.
Just to attract fresh flesh to use as bait.
And this is done too often!'
'Okay.
I can understand that.
But...
The cannibal eating metaphors.
Makes no sense to me.'
'Yet...
A friend tossing a giggling salad does?'
'Yeah.
His description of it,
Was easier for me to believe...
I too could become a vegetarian.'
'Remind me the next time we meet,
To buy a box of crayons and a work pad.
A big one.'
'Okay. Why?
One of us,
May have a need to explain to the other...
The Sun, the Moon, Earth and Stars.
And...
What makes the night different from day!'
'Wow!
That should be exciting!'
'And hopefully by then,
I will be fully medicated.'
'Sometimes you say,
The most craziest things!'
'You have no idea,
What it takes for me to try not to do it!'
'I agree.
And...
I am going to hold my laughter.
As best as I can.
Until I get home.
Then laugh and laugh hysterically.'
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Metre | 10111110 111111 1111010 10101 0100010 011111 011001101 0011101010 11100011 1010011 11110010 1010111 1110100 1111 11011111 11 010101001 11111011 1011111010 1010011 010010 11010 01011010 101 10110100 0101111111 1111001 1100 11011110001 1100111100 10110100010 1 111010111 101 011 1110010 11010110 11111110 111111 10101101 0 1100 1101111001010 11111 1100111 1 01 111001111 1011101011 0110111010 11101 1101011 1101111111 0111110 1 11011 1 010010100 11111 1 01100100101 1 101011 110011101 1110100100 01101111 1101110011 011 11 111 11011011010 0101101 0 110110011 1 111010 010011 11110100 0111 011001 111010 11111111111 101 0 111011110 11111 01111 1101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,359 |
Words | 530 |
Sentences | 72 |
Stanzas | 21 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 6, 6, 5, 1, 3, 1, 7, 7, 9, 5, 2, 4, 3, 6, 2, 2, 2, 2, 6 |
Lines Amount | 88 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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