In The Baggage Room At Greyhound Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BACDEFGHIAJKLMNOPQRS ITEUVWXYZZA2EB2PBC2 A D2E2F2G2QXH2 A I2J2K2D2L2QBM2N2D2IP O2P2IEIQ2R2S2D2I2T2P D2GD2U2 I2 D2DIV2W2IX2D2Y2Z2A3 GD2B3C3D3II | A |
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In the depths of the Greyhound Terminal | B |
sitting dumbly on a baggage truck looking at the sky | A |
waiting for the Los Angeles Express to depart | C |
worrying about eternity over the Post Office roof in | D |
the night time red downtown heaven | E |
staring through my eyeglasses I realized shuddering | F |
these thoughts were not eternity nor the poverty | G |
of our lives irritable baggage clerks | H |
nor the millions of weeping relatives surrounding the | I |
buses waving goodbye | A |
nor other millions of the poor rushing around from | J |
city to city to see their loved ones | K |
nor an indian dead with fright talking to a huge cop | L |
by the Coke machine | M |
nor this trembling old lady with a cane taking the last | N |
trip of her life | O |
nor the red capped cynical porter collecting his quar | P |
ters and smiling over the smashed baggage | Q |
nor me looking around at the horrible dream | R |
nor mustached negro Operating Clerk named Spade | S |
dealing out with his marvelous long hand the | I |
fate of thousands of express packages | T |
nor fairy Sam in the basement limping from leaden | E |
trunk to trunk | U |
nor Joe at the counter with his nervous breakdown | V |
smiling cowardly at the customers | W |
nor the grayish green whale's stomach interior loft | X |
where we keep the baggage in hideous racks | Y |
hundreds of suitcases full of tragedy rocking back and | Z |
forth waiting to be opened | Z |
nor the baggage that's lost nor damaged handles | A2 |
nameplates vanished busted wires broken | E |
ropes whole trunks exploding on the concrete | B2 |
floor | P |
nor seabags emptied into the night in the final | B |
warehouse | C2 |
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II | A |
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Yet Spade reminded me of Angel unloading a bus | D2 |
dressed in blue overalls black face official Angel's work | E2 |
man cap | F2 |
pushing with his belly a huge tin horse piled high with | G2 |
black baggage | Q |
looking up as he passed the yellow light bulb of the loft | X |
and holding high on his arm an iron shepherd's crook | H2 |
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III | A |
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It was the racks I realized sitting myself on top of | I2 |
them now as is my wont at lunchtime to rest | J2 |
my tired foot | K2 |
it was the racks great wooden shelves and stanchions | D2 |
posts and beams assembled floor to roof jumbled | L2 |
with baggage | Q |
the Japanese white metal postwar trunk gaudily | B |
flowered headed for Fort Bragg | M2 |
one Mexican green paper package in purple rope | N2 |
adorned with names for Nogales | D2 |
hundreds of radiators all at once for Eureka | I |
crates of Hawaiian underwear | P |
rolls of posters scattered over the Peninsula nuts to | O2 |
Sacramento | P2 |
one human eye for Napa | I |
an aluminum box of human blood for Stockton | E |
and a little red package of teeth for Calistoga | I |
it was the racks and these on the racks I saw naked | Q2 |
in electric light the night before I quit | R2 |
the racks were created to hang our possessions to keep | S2 |
us together a temporary shift in space | D2 |
God's only way of building the rickety structure of | I2 |
Time | T2 |
to hold the bags to send on the roads to carry our | P |
luggage from place to place | D2 |
looking for a bus to ride us back home to Eternity | G |
where the heart was left and farewell tears | D2 |
began | U2 |
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IV | I2 |
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A swarm of baggage sitting by the counter as the trans | D2 |
continental bus pulls in | D |
The clock registering A M May the | I |
second hand moving forward red | V2 |
Getting ready to load my last bus Farewell Walnut | W2 |
Creek Richmond Vallejo Portland Pacific | I |
Highway | X2 |
Fleet footed Quicksilver God of transience | D2 |
One last package sits lone at midnight sticking up out | Y2 |
of the Coast rack high as the dusty fluorescent | Z2 |
light | A3 |
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The wage they pay us is too low to live on Tragedy | G |
reduced to numbers | D2 |
This for the poor shepherds I am a communist | B3 |
Farewell ye Greyhound where I suffered so much | C3 |
hurt my knee and scraped my hand and built | D3 |
my pectoral muscles big as a vagina | I |
Allen Ginsberg
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