Analysis of The Dollar General- Prologue
This is The Dollar General
An Epic Poem starting at my job
Ending with a shot at Tokyo 2021-- Freestyle Wrestling
The Job hasn’t started yet so I can do my OCD thing
Catch you up
This computer is an HP chromebook
Wait
The Body is the savior
FF
Get Organized
Work
Sign up and Wrestle
The reason that I’m obsessed with wrestling
Is I didn’t do as well as I could have
And a few times, I lost without honor
Once I (probably) lose in Millersville
The Last Chance Qualifier
I will be free
I will be Organized from working
I’ve been wandering in my room for years
I’ll buy a motorcycle and wander with my family in my eyes
I need to work and sell the poem
Last time I tried to sell drugs
I was heavily manipulated by DARPA
It was Halloween
I had just harassed The Pythian Temple
With my brother
I stole my old (prescribed) adderalls, klonopins, oxys
Out of my parents’ safe
And $300
I tried to trade it all for a gun
Because I was paranoid
About The Election
I ended up at an outdoor church in times square
I had done most of the drugs
And met a bike courier named Hans
My father’s name
The Rules of the Knights of Pythias are
Speak English, Don’t Sell Drugs or Gamble
So the Job + The Poem will get me the bike
Plus if I somehow win a match
I might be able to turn that into something
Once I have the Bike I will live on the Bike
It’s what I’m meant to do
I can survive this autism by having my family in Shawangunk
One son for me I think
But I don’t want to cramp my style
Casey (Henry/Helga?)
Get Organized
Work and Write
Sign up and Wrestle
Sell my Poem
Maybe I’ll win
Lol
Royal Enfield Himalayan $5000
I wouldn’t even need to sell the poem
But I should try, because money is good I guess
I need to get over the need to only do what I have to do
Because it always ends up as
Nothing
Biker
and
Father
Biker=Viking
Did I mention
I’m a hobby linguist
I’m not having any fun anymore, though
I’m burnt out
I don’t want it
One eye
Walk like Woden
If I don’t waste my money, you may see a lot of me
[$] [FF] [FS] [The Dollar General]
Royal Enfield Himalayan
Try to Cope
PTSD
From
Something
I don’t even know what
Electronic Torture
Sprites and Egregores
I don’t want to continue writing after I get my bike
Because I have spent enough time at the computer
But that is probably OCD talking
It’s either OCD
Or Autism or PTSD or Antisocial or Bipolar or Schizoaffective or Schizophrenia
Or I’m lazy
Sign up: $55 +$30 + DO IT
Get help from my parents
With life
Sword-Thane|Warg-Rider|Rune-Witch
Blade-Son|Fleet-Tongue
Seer|Psy-Op Seer|Clan of the Dog|Sign of the Deer
The perfect life would be
Family at the farm in Shawangunk
Ride my Himalayan
This is the latest symbol that I think might save me
The sword
Just Walking
Even if I don’t sell the Poem
Work|Get License|Get Bike
Wait-- I fucked up
I’m gonna wander on the bike for a while
Then come back to The Property
I won’t be a biker when I’m a father… duh
Actually I don’t need a bike
I will work and get organized
Wrestle and then sell this poem and just wander
Which will be my next poem
I will be Wandering Back to Shawangunk
But this one technically hasn’t started yet
I’m not even The Dollar PFC
Don’t call it stolen valor
Cuz valor’s got nothing to do with it
The Trump Drama is nearing its climax
My sister is coming back to New York
I don’t think about her enough
Actually I’m gonna get a bike
Because, as Benjamin Franklin said:
Now that I have a Sheep and a Cow, everyone bids me Good Morrow
Or maybe a Subaru
A good compromise
Lar, Incorporated
Long-Distance Courier
I have a 2012 Nissan Leaf
That’s almost dead… EV Rides might want it
I finish my business
And drive off with a subaru
My parents’ move to Shawangunk and trade the Audi for an F-150 EV
My sister has love and art
My brother has his whole life ahead of him
I have the road, and hopefully love
No I think the Bike is the way
Something to foster discipline
And it’s cooler
No
The Bike is stupid
A Car is stupid
Work--Write--$--FF--2021
Wander--Write
Back To The Lar
My parents’ trade the Leaf with the Audi
And I’m not a consumerist
I’m just lost
Computer
Dumb Phone
Sword
And a backpack
I should be able to walk around naked
And write, and use the internet with my hotspot
Until I am ready to be civilized again
I have gone far
Too far
I’ve got the PCP Blues
I’ve got the PCP Blues
Black Tripp Pants|Dirty White Shoes|I Hate Fake News
But it was bad before that
And I think I died
Near the Harrisburg Nuclear Power Plant
I slept next to the river
Cried
And jacked off on the ground
Work|Get Organized|Wrestle
(Sell The Dollar General)
Wander
After I am done wandering
I don’t know if I will write more
I definitely won’t have any other ambitions
I will just work on The Farm
Or My Wife’s Farm
If hers is better
I literally don’t even use the internet anymore
Or talk to anyone
I just stare at my lists
OCD
Or Autism or PTSD or Antisocial
or Bipolar or Schizoaffective or Schizophrenia
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010100 1101010111 10101110110 0111011111111 111 10101111 1 0101010 1 110 1 11010 0101101110 1111111111 0011110110 11100101 011100 1111 11110110 1110001111 11010001011100011 111101010 1111111 111000100110 1101 111010110 1110 111101111 111101 0 111111101 011110 010010 11011111011 1111101 010110011 1101 01101111 110111110 10101011101 1111101 111101110110 11101111101 111111 1101110110110001 111111 11111111 101010 110 101 11010 1110 1011 1 1010010 1110111010 111101101111 11111001110111111 0111111 10 10 0 10 1010 1110 101010 1110101011 111 1111 11 111 11111101110111 11110100 1010010 111 1 1 10 111011 01010 101 111101010101111 0111101110010 111100110 1101 11011101010101110100 1110 1111 111110 11 1111011 1111 111111011101 001111 10010101 11010 1101010111111 01 110 101111010 111011 1111 11010101101 11110100 111010110101 10011101 1110110 100111100110 1111110 111100111 11110001101 11100101 1111010 111101111 011011011 1101101111 11101001 100110101 011100101 1111010011011110 1100100 0110 10100 110100 110101 11111111 110110 01110100 110111010101111 1101101 11011110111 110101001 11101101 10110100 0110 1 01110 01110 111 101 1101 1101011010 01100100 111 010 11 1 001 11110110110 0101010111 011110111001 1111 11 11011 11011 11110111111 1111011 01111 10100100101 1111010 1 011101 111010 1010100 10 10111100 11111111 11000111010010 1111101 1111 10110 11000110101001 11110 111111 1 110111010 10101110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 4,817 |
Words | 945 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 59 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 177 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on January 09, 2021
Modified on April 25, 2023
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