Real Life



Here in The Land of the Free where nothing is free,
money doesn't grow on any trees.
Too many overpaid, too many over slaved for underpaid wage.
Who has the right, who has the fight, who has the sight to make it all right.
This world is ass backwards in so many different factors,
Two ta four year terms getting paid until you burn,
while others are lucky if they live to work twenty, making half of what they should.
Broke down pain and suffer, barely making supper.
Come on y'all it's time to stand tall, divided we all fall.
Stand up and stand together could shut anything down forever,
Time to make this world better.
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Written on May 10, 2023

Submitted by Slick222 on May 20, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGHIHH
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 624
Words 126
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11

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