September On Jessore Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH HHHH IIBB JJAA KKLL MMNN OEPP HHDD QQRR GSTT UUVV WWXX YYWW WWWW WWWW ZA2B2B2 C2D2NN E2F2WW WWWW WWWW WWG2G2 HHAA LLHH DDHH WWLL HHWW WWH2H2 H2H2I2I2 WWH2H2 NNH2H2 RWWW HHWW WWWW DDWW HHDD

Millions of babies watching the skiesA
Bellies swollen with big round eyesA
On Jessore Road long bamboo hutsB
Noplace to shit but sand channel rutsB
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Millions of fathers in rainC
Millions of mothers in painC
Millions of brothers in woeD
Millions of sisters nowhere to goD
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One Million aunts are dying for breadE
One Million uncles lamenting the deadE
Grandfather millions homeless and sadF
Grandmother millions silently madF
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Millions of daughters walk in the mudG
Millions of children wash in the floodG
A Million girls vomit groanH
Millions of families hopeless aloneH
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Millions of souls nineteenseventyoneH
homeless on Jessore road under grey sunH
A million are dead the million who canH
Walk toward Calcutta from East PakistanH
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Taxi September along Jessore RoadI
Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal loadI
past watery fields thru rain flood rutsB
Dung cakes on treetrunks plastic roof hutsB
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Wet processions Families walkJ
Stunted boys big heads don't talkJ
Look bony skulls silent round eyesA
Starving black angels in human disguiseA
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Mother squats weeping points to her sonsK
Standing thin legged like elderly nunsK
small bodied hands to their mouths in prayerL
Five months small food since they settled thereL
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on one floor mat with small empty potM
Father lifts up his hands at their lotM
Tears come to their mother's eyeN
Pain makes mother Maya cryN
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Two children together in palmroof shadeO
Stare at me no word is saidE
Rice ration lentils one time a weekP
Milk powder for warweary infants meekP
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No vegetable money or work for the manH
Rice lasts four days eat while they canH
Then children starve three days in a rowD
and vomit their next food unless they eat slowD
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On Jessore road Mother wept at my kneesQ
Bengali tongue cried mister PleaseQ
Identity card torn up on the floorR
Husband still waits at the camp office doorR
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Baby at play I was washing the floodG
Now they won't give us any more foodS
The pieces are here in my celluloid purseT
Innocent baby play our death curseT
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Two policemen surrounded by thousands of boysU
Crowded waiting their daily bread joysU
Carry big whistles long bamboo sticksV
to whack them in line They play hungry tricksV
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Breaking the line and jumping in frontW
Into the circle sneaks one skinny runtW
Two brothers dance forward on the mud stageX
Teh gaurds blow their whistles chase them in rageX
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Why are these infants massed in this placeY
Laughing in play pushing for spaceY
Why do they wait here so cheerful dreadW
Why this is the House where they give children breadW
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The man in the bread door Cries comes outW
Thousands of boys and girls Take up his shoutW
Is it joy is it prayer No more bread todayW
Thousands of Children at once scream HoorayW
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Run home to tents where elders awaitW
Messenger children with bread from the stateW
No bread more today and no place to squatW
Painful baby sick shit he has gotW
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Malnutrition skulls thousands for monthsZ
Dysentery drains bowels all at onceA2
Nurse shows disease card EnterostrepB2
Suspension is wanting or else chlorostrepB2
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Refugee camps in hospital shacksC2
Newborn lay naked on mother's thin lapsD2
Monkeysized week old Rheumatic babe eyeN
Gastoenteritis Blood Poison thousands must dieN
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September Jessore Road rickshawE2
souls in one camp I sawF2
Rows of bamboo huts in the floodW
Open drains wet families waiting for foodW
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Border trucks flooded food cant get pastW
American Angel machine please come fastW
Where is Ambassador Bunker todayW
Are his Helios machinegunning children at playW
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Where are the helicopters of U S AIDW
Smuggling dope in Bangkok's green shadeW
Where is America's Air Force of LightW
Bombing North Laos all day and all nightW
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Where are the President's Armies of GoldW
Billionaire Navies merciful BoldW
Bringing us medicine food and reliefG2
Napalming North Viet Nam and causing more griefG2
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Where are our tears Who weeps for the painH
Where can these families go in the rainH
Jessore Road's children close their big eyesA
Where will we sleep when Our Father diesA
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Whom shall we pray to for rice and for careL
Who can bring bread to this shit flood foul'd lairL
Millions of children alone in the rainH
Millions of children weeping in painH
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Ring O ye tongues of the world for their woeD
Ring out ye voices for Love we don't knowD
Ring out ye bells of electrical painH
Ring in the conscious of America brainH
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How many children are we who are lostW
Whose are these daughters we see turn to ghostW
What are our souls that we have lost careL
Ring out ye musics and weep if you dareL
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Cries in the mud by the thatch'd house sand drainH
Sleeps in huge pipes in the wet shit field rainH
waits by the pump well Woe to the worldW
whose children still starve in their mother's arms curledW
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Is this what I did to myself in the pastW
What shall I do Sunil Poet I askedW
Move on and leave them without any coinsH2
What should I care for the love of my loinsH2
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What should we care for our cities and carsH2
What shall we buy with our Food Stamps on MarsH2
How many millions sit down in New YorkI2
sup this night's table on bone roast porkI2
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How many millions of beer cans are tossedW
in Oceans of Mother How much does She costW
Cigar gasolines and asphalt car dreamsH2
Stinking the world and dimming star beamsH2
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Finish the war in your breast with a sighN
Come tast the tears in your own Human eyeN
Pity us millions of phantoms you seeH2
Starved in Samsara on planet TVH2
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How many millions of children die moreR
before our Good Mothers perceive the Great LordW
How many good fathers pay tax to rebuildW
Armed forces that boast the children they've killedW
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How many souls walk through Maya in painH
How many babes in illusory painH
How many families hollow eyed lostW
How many grandmothers turning to ghostW
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How many loves who never get breadW
How many Aunts with holes in their headW
How many sisters skulls on the groundW
How many grandfathers make no more soundW
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How many fathers in woeD
How many sons nowhere to goD
How many daughters nothing to eatW
How many uncles with swollen sick feetW
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Millions of babies in painH
Millions of mothers in rainH
Millions of brothers in woeD
Millions of children nowhere to goD

Allen Ginsberg



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