Analysis of Superiority
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
The media.
As a tool.
Can and is used,
In so many diversified,
Ways.
To introduce and produce,
Without excuses made to successfully create...
Emotions had of feelings to have.
Through TV, movies, the internet.
And a rush to purchase videos kept.
Or whatever it is associated to connect,
That keeps the viewer repeatedly reminded...
What to expect and it to accept.
Regardless if not witnessed to observe,
Yet...
In the viewer's mind it has occurred.
Superiority over thoughts and beliefs,
Is a media creation easily to receive.
And followed to allow,
Mental insecurities to manifest freely.
Done to imitate for the sake of approval.
With acceptance sought to seek.
Very few these days,
Have aged to remember,
When there were times existing...
People thought to think,
Before reacting to assumptions.
And common sense to use,
Had not then been outdated.
To regard as a 'thing' from a long gone past.
Today?
Superiority to have has had many to believe,
That a doing unto others...
To lie and deceive and fraud successfully.
Is easy to achieve if done secretly.
And guarantees a happy life to live.
However...
If that was true,
Why are so many doing all they can to prove...
Themselves to feel superior over others.
With a doing to cheat, betray, lie and deceive.
To achieve this known but not it shown,
As representatives focused...
Upon accomplishments that establishes,
A better quality of life to live.
Instead of implementing,
Chaos, conflicts, division and hate.
As if the past had to be missed,
Is a priority to wish a fiction to delude.
Will make them feel better to do.
Than moving forward without censoring,
The proof of truth and evidence...
Their insecurities to have,
Would rather erase than to face reality.
Reality...
Has yet been proven,
To be the cause and reason...
Those victimized by others,
Who hate themselves.
Should share with anyone,
Claiming to be replaced.
By those of ethnic faces.
Enforced to feel inferior.
When that feeling felt to have,
Becomes too obvious to notice...
A losing game to keep it played,
Only reveals children unable...
To perform as adults.
But hope to get familiar results.
If the repeated tantrums are condone.
And approved them thrown as expected!
'I want my way.
Why can I not have my way?'
'Look.
Enough is enough to have had enough of it!
Shut up!
Grow up!
And...
I know for you,
This is a stretch of your limited imagination.
However...
If you dress yourself,
To impress others you are an adult?
Stop acting the part.
And begin with attempts to be one!'
'I am.
But too much is expected of me!'
'And...
Your point to make,
Is what?
And you have the galling audacity,
To believe and call yourself SUPERIOR?!
Over what?
Not who.
But WHAT?!
Stop whining.
Jesus!'
'No!
I'm the chosen one.'
'That has already been determined.
You have proven yourself,
To be chosen the one out of your mind.'
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Metre | 0100 101 1011 0110010 1 101001 0101011010001 010111011 11110010 0011101001 110110100101 110100100010 110101101 0101110101 1 001011101 00100101001 10100010100101 010101 10010011010 11101011010 1010111 10111 111010 1101010 10111 010101010 010111 111110 10110110111 01 00100111110101 10101010 11001010100 11010111100 001010111 10 1111 111101011111 011101001010 101011011001 101111111 1010010 01010010100 0101001111 011100 100101001 11011111 10010011010101 11111011 1101001100 01110100 1010011 1100111110 10 11110 1101010 1100110 1101 11110 10111 1111010 01110100 1110111 011100110 01011111 100110010 101101 111101001 1001010101 001111010 1111 1111111 1 011011110111 11 11 0 1111 1101111000010 10 11101 1011011101 11001 001101111 11 111101011 0 1111 11 0110100100 10101010100 101 11 11 110 10 1 10101 110101010 111001 1110011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,847 |
Words | 604 |
Sentences | 74 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 6, 8, 24, 17, 2, 12, 2, 10, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 102 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 199 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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