Thoughts Upon Style and Substance

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Billy,

Hardly a sonnet as this is written in iambic tetrameter, not pentameter. "if this were about me i'd feel very depressed" it's about those who value style above substance. Or as someone once said, "It's better to look good than to feel good darling!"
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Marcells,

I'm wondering about this line: "pay them off with spinning whorls"

The answer is yes and no. Yes it refers to those hypnotism wheels one gets as a prize at the circus, but it also means any worthless bauble. BTW this is written in accentual meter not quantitative meter!

Dale

So pinwheels, that works better with pay them off.

If the title hadn't led me elsewhere I think I would have applied it to organized religion.