Analysis of hiss story

John Jessup Kennan 1953 (Pomona)



hoses hiss
from manicured
sanctuaries sterile
pristine green
peering out at
scruburbed sidewalks

developed housing
planned anaconda
infestations
fat hungry hoses
hissing
strangling
exhale with a
hiss

factories filled with
job creations
manufacture
soul burgers
psycho burgled
steamed hisses
mega metal meat
monsters
ground soul
patties conform to
standards expectations
specifications regulations
incantations manifestations
manifest infestations
drone clones drone
on in
glorification
in mashed hopes
that someone will
find us
perfectly shaped or
flavored so
artificially wonderkin and
purchase a
share or two or
at least stop to
nosh

production line
truths canned
to be whispered
unseen
not heard

i
remember when
breathing came
easy

pick a
partner from the
shelf
drop it in your
shopping
cart
consume each
other

uncanned
olives on a serving
tray with
toothpicks
and miniature
sandwiches such a
lovely spread

relief of desperation
a la mode hisses
exhale
it will all be
over soon

would you like
another helping?

© John Kennan 12-17-20


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Poetic Form
Metre 101 1100 10010 101 1011 11 01010 1010 10 11010 10 100 0110 1 10011 1010 010 110 101 110 10101 10 11 10011 10010 0010010 10010 1010 111 10 0010 011 111 11 10011 101 010010 100 1111 1111 1 0101 11 1110 01 11 1 0101 101 10 10 1010 1 1101 10 1 011 10 1 101010 11 1 0100 10010 101 011010 01110 01 1111 101 111 01010 110
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 983
Words 158
Sentences 2
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 6, 8, 27, 5, 4, 8, 7, 5, 2, 1
Lines Amount 73
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 87
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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