In Memory Of Radio Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFG HIJKL MNOPQ RSTU VW XXYZWho has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston | A |
Only jack Kerouac that I know of me | B |
The rest of you probably had on WCBS and Kate Smith | C |
Or something equally unattractive | D |
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What can I say | E |
It is better to haved loved and lost | F |
Than to put linoleum in your living rooms | G |
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Am I a sage or something | H |
Mandrake's hypnotic gesture of the week | I |
Remember I do not have the healing powers of Oral Roberts | J |
I cannot like F J Sheen tell you how to get saved rich | K |
I cannot even order you to the gaschamber satori like Hitler or Goddy Knight | L |
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love is an evil word | M |
Turn it backwards see see what I mean | N |
An evol word besides | O |
who understands it | P |
I certainly wouldn't like to go out on that kind of limb | Q |
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Saturday mornings we listened to the Red Lantern his undersea folk | R |
At Let's Pretend | S |
we did | T |
I the poet still do Thank God | U |
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What was it he used to say after the transformation when he was safe | V |
invisible the unbelievers couldn't throw stones 'Heh heh heh | W |
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men The Shadow knows ' | - |
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O yes he does | X |
O yes he does | X |
An evil word it is | Y |
This Love | Z |
Amiri Baraka
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