Velocity Of Money Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRL LLSTUEV| I m delighted by the velocity of money as it whistles through the windows | A |
| of Lower East Side | B |
| Delighted by skyscrapers rising the old grungy apartments falling on | C |
| th Street | D |
| Delighted by inflation that drives me out on the street | D |
| After all what good s the family farm why eat turkey by thousands every | E |
| Thanksgiving | F |
| Why not have Star Wars Why have the same old America | G |
| George Washington wasn t good enough Tom Paine pain in the neck | H |
| Whitman what a jerk | I |
| I m delighted by double digit interest rates in the Capitalist world | J |
| I always was a communist now we ll win | K |
| an usury makes the walls thinner books thicker dumber | L |
| Usury makes my poetry more valuable | M |
| my manuscripts worth their weight in useless gold | N |
| Now everybody s atheist like me nothing s sacred | O |
| buy and sell your grandmother eat up old age homes | P |
| Peddle babies on the street pretty boys for sale on Times Square | Q |
| You can shoot heroin I can sniff cocaine | R |
| macho men can fite on the Nicaraguan border and get paid with paper | L |
| The velocity s what counts as the National Debt gets higher | L |
| Everybody running after the rising dollar | L |
| Crowds of joggers down broadway past City Hall on the way to the Fed | S |
| Nobody reads Dostoyevsky books so they ll have to give a passing ear | T |
| to my fragmented ravings in between President s speeches | U |
| Nothing s happening but the collapse of the Economy | E |
| so I can go back to sleep till the landlord wins his eviction suit in court | V |
Allen Ginsberg
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