Pulpit Pleas
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
The Eternal state lies in the woods;
The forest for the trees.
But outer darkness waits for those;
Who do just as they please.
No, they don’t care who it might hurt;
They don’t feel any pain.
Their pines and cedars turned to pulp.
They flush them down the drain.
But still they can’t relieve themselves;
They’re always full of dung.
They like to play around with it;
Some constipated fun.
Now when they die their dung dies too!
They’re all mixed up; they buried you.
Grab a shovel!
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Written on September 11, 2023
Submitted by dawg4jesus on September 11, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 494 |
Words | 106 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 3 |
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