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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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XBXB XXXX CCX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 494
Words 106
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 3

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