Analysis of Power Cut
“I like to be fat”, the poor Cambodian said, “for fat means power. But at this hour I am poor and lacking things. Not able to pull any strings, nor to make myself a living. Skinny means no one is giving, nothing to expect, easy to reject.”
The poor woman dreamed of a fancy house, sharing it with a big fat spouse, and using a lot of electric power. But at this unhappy hour, she is living in a cheap small flat, together with her skinny cat, and if she tries at night to switch on even the tiniest light, there will be anything but because of the daily power cut.
The peasant child was not a fool. It wanted to go to school to become an English teacher instead of a powerless creature. But its parents being poor, sold it to become a whore. Now being a sodomized slave, it soon will seriously misbehave. Because its anger is growing fast, this ticking bomb will burst at last.
This nation does want to succeed, but is undermined by cruelty and greed. The one hand gives it some power, but the other cracks the flower before it can blossom and multiply. That’s the reason why this nation stays poor and depending on never ending money sending. The powerful still control, and poverty takes its toll.
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Metre | 1111101100111110111101110101110111011111010101111101010110101 0110110101101101110100110101011101010111000111010101010111111111001001111101011010101 01011101110111110111010011010010111010111101011100100111110000101110110111011111 1101110111011100101111110101010100111100101010111011001011010101001001010100111 |
Characters | 1,206 |
Words | 225 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 235 |
Words per line (avg) | 56 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 235 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
About this poem
Written in 2006, when living in Cambodia.
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