Analysis of Average Craze

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



There had been a time not that long ago.
When a keeping intentions simple.
Avoided conflicts.
And many to have lived,
To experience growing older.
Remember these times.
Now gone to know,
What it was to mean to say 'hello'.
Done without expecting a doing of it,
Anyone would find offensive.

Yet we are living in times,
People are seeking...
A right to protect their suspicions.
Of anyone they suspect.
Overdoing a respect to others given.
Just to victimize another.
And with a doing to prove it shown,
Anyone can be picked to deceive.
Hoodwinked and tricked.

'You obviously don't know what time it is.
Do you?'

'Sure.
Of course I do.
Hold on a sec.
It's close to noon.'

'I don't mean that.
You don't know me to say 'hello'.
What do you take me for?
Some kind of freak?
Out on the streets soliciting?'

'Uh...no.
However these days I will admit,
Keeping things simple...
Can begin to start a conflict.'

'I apologize.
Immediately I thought,
You were one of those...
Peace on Earth.
Joy and happiness spreaders.
Only to discover later,
Them to be the biggest hypocrites.'

'All I wanted you to have,
Was a good day.
And that was it.'

'Well, why didn't you say that?
That to say would have been enough.
Instead of using trite code words.'

'Yeah.
Like...
How are you doing?
Hello and that meaningless nonsense!'

'An average craze,
Seems normalized these days.'

'Oh?
So now you're calling me a racist?
Or a bigot?
You don't know that about me.'

'Hello.
Goodbye.
And enjoy your day.'

'Sure.
Sure.
Leave me to feel the fool.
I happen to know more about reality,
Than you do.'

'Thank you.
There is still so much,
I have yet to learn.
Life to live moves so fast.
I am there in the past.
Valuing to treasure,
Gone not to notice...
What was once a value,
Today has been trashed.'

'Whatever.
Call me what you will.
But my trash to value is treasured.
And some folks talk about,
How good it was to have it yesterday!
As if today it's not better had to have it.

Old folks.
And their fictioned to delude,
A simple to live it life in denial.'


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Poetic Form
Metre 1110111101 101001010 01001 010111 101001010 01011 1111 111111101 10101001011 1011010 1111001 10110 011011010 110101 101000111010 11100010 010101111 10111101 101 11000111111 11 1 1111 1101 1111 1111 11111101 111111 1111 11010100 1 10111101 10110 10111010 1010 0100011 10111 111 101001 10101010 11101010 1110111 1011 0111 1110111 11111101 01110111 1 1 11110 010110010 11001 11011 1 111101010 1010 1111011 01 1 00111 1 1 111101 1101110110 111 11 11111 11111 111111 111001 100110 11110 111010 01111 10 11111 111110110 011101 111111110 110111101111 11 011101 01011110010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 2,053
Words 476
Sentences 70
Stanzas 17
Stanza Lengths 10, 9, 2, 4, 5, 4, 7, 3, 3, 4, 2, 4, 3, 5, 9, 6, 3
Lines Amount 83
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted by lpahtillah on February 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

2:25 min read
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