Analysis of Giving Order to Things
I'm trying to give order to things
perpetually a competition
between desire and necessity
necessity always wins
and desire grovels
like a renga
of grunts and incantations
a blur
only born to be pulverized
and bleached
found in an archeological dig
in a lineage of bones
and smeared ash
martyrdoms
stained totems
of brittle ancestors
and jeweled coffers
under this necropolis of stars
we run head first
north node bound
where brain surgery neuro grids
are instant evolution
for algorithms
of techno rationality
and hold close
south node baggage
in its history of contingencies
interchangeable plot lines
like old sitcoms
with built in
canned laugh tracks
that jerk us off
in the theater of atrocities
i am my
fathers fathers father
and the children of my children
weeping in labyrinths thunder
and swirling ethers
held down on the crucifix
of this spinning marble
that floats in ice black fires
blood fat armies
of knuckle dragging
infinitesimal bodies
fill tombs of pharaohs
and queens
extracted sarcophagi
from the Valley of the Kings
who ruled arcades
of brazen and terrified
praying chimpanzees
scattering and pierced
on hooks and flames
through their soft bodies
in a humanistic cinema
of tyrannies
and myth fiction horror
a history of suspicion
submits to
commodities of fetish phantasmagoria
and festivals of atonement
at our end
Gods will
the big un-bang
a spectacular inhumanity
bashes us hard with
Punchinellos bat
striking wounds and age
of fallen life
in voids mountain peaks
till deaths wake
in the noisy silence
of forever
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111011 010000010 0101000100 010011 00101 101 1101 01 1011110 01 101001001 0010011 011 1 110 11010 0110 101010011 1111 111 1110011 110010 1100 1100100 011 1110 0110010100 010011 1110 110 111 1111 0010010100 111 101010 00101110 100110 01010 111010 111010 1101110 1110 11010 0010010 11110 01 0101 1010101 1101 110010 10010 10001 1101 11110 00010100 1100 011010 01001010 11 010011000100 01001010 1101 11 0111 0010000100 10111 11 10101 1101 01101 111 001010 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,501 |
Words | 253 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 11, 15, 8, 16, 4, 12 |
Lines Amount | 73 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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