Analysis of IT SUCKS GETTING OLD
mad hippie poet 1974 (new jersey)
Here I sit, almost 50, waiting for prune juice and a rocking chair. I do not want my family putting me in a damn nursing home with others like me with fading tattoos playing a game of guessing what it was and pulling each other fingers to see if we can hear.
Could you give me my pen and paper? I want to write some poetry. I want to listen to my grateful dead and the hidden messages in every song they sang. Will I hear the doorbell ring? Will I understand the next big thing?
It sucks getting old, so I was told when I was young, I had to bite my tongue on my mother's birthday listening to her tell me you will be my age someday.
I was hoping you could give me my whiskey, roll me a bone, let me get stoned. I want my senior discount where is my AARP card when I take a shit without a diaper I want to be able to say I had a bowel movement even if it came out like cement it sucks getting old
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Metre | 11111011100101111111001010011011101111001100111011101011010111111 1111110101111110011110111010010100010011111101111010111 1110111111111111111111011001011111111 1110111111011011111111100111111111010101011111011110101010111110111101 |
Characters | 899 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 174 |
Words per line (avg) | 47 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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