The day the earth sneezed
Terrorism, rape,
Car bomb, paedophile...
She feels vulnerable,
No love to keep her warm
9/11, kidnap,
Human trafficking...
She’s been forgotten,
Left alone in the dark
Serial killers, H1N1,
Child molesters, HIV...
She shudders with the cold,
And Port Au Prince is flattened
Hijack, murder,
Drive-by shootings...
She feels groggy,
Influenza sets in
Weapons of mass destruction,
Cuban nuclear tests...
There starts a tingle in her nose,
Her eyes pinch shut
Genocide, organs on the black market,
Xenophobia, suicide bombers...
With a bellow from her bowels,
From flaming ice the cumulus anvil that infects the world
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Submitted by leol.15970 on May 12, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAAX XXBX XXXX XXXX BXXC CXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 96 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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