Analysis of GET YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT!

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



The bigots tell us what to do
They even tell us what to say,
Priority groups get everything first
Although it seems an evil way.

Women must be paid more for less
Although they're hardly a minority,
But women's greed is more important
Than, the need of the community.

If you're male you are inferior
That's what the Bitch-Queen-Fuehrer says,
If you think you're as good as women
Then you'll need to mend your ways.

If you're GAY, man that's okay
But if you're straight you're always wrong,
She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed
Loves to sing that evil song!

If you're black, you are beautiful
But white, it seems, is never right,
The Gestapo gets to make the rules
Pushing their evil with military might.

If you come from another land
Then you are Australia's best,
But if you're white, straight, and male
Big Sister says you are a wretch.

If you dare ask for equality
You're a sexist, racist, or some other "-ist",
If you ask for simple justice
Then they say, "You're full of it!"

Priority groups are a way to spread hate
Against innocent majorities,
Whom the evil matriarch claims
Are merely human inferiorities!

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme ABXB XCXC XXXX BDXD XEXE XXXX CAXX XXXB XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 01011111 11011111 010011101 1111101 10111111 111000100 110111010 101100100 111110100 1101111 111111110 1111111 111111 1111111 111101 1111101 11111100 11111101 001011101 1011011001 11110101 1110101 1111101 11011101 111110100 10101011101 11111010 1111111 01001101111 011000100 1010101 110101 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,158
Words 206
Sentences 9
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 23

About this poem

Priority groups are the ultimate and most evil form of racism and/or sexism.

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Written on July 05, 2021

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on July 07, 2021

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Phil Roberts

I turn 65 on the 31st of January 2022. I love cats, rock music, and horror fiction and poetry more…

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