Short Speech To My Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFAGH AIJKLAMAAN OPQRSITUUVWOXOGYZ A2B2MRC2D2 IOIOE2F2

A political art let it beA
tenderness low strings the fingersB
touch or the width of autumnC
climbing wider avenues among the virtueD
and dignity of knowing what cityA
you're in who to talk to what clothesE
even what buttons to wear I addressF
the societyA
the image ofG
common utopiaH
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The perversityA
of separation isolationI
after so many years of trying to enter their kingdomsJ
now they suffer in tears these others saxophones whiningK
through the wooden doors of their less than gracious homesL
The poor have become our creators The black The thoroughlyA
ignorantM
Let the combination of moralityA
and inhumanityA
beginN
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Is power the enemy DestroyerO
of dawns cool flesh of valentines amongP
the radios pauses drunksQ
of the th century I see itR
as any man's single history All the possible heroesS
dead from heat exhaustionI
at the beachT
or hiding for years from camerasU
only to die cheaply in the pagesU
of our daily lieV
One heroW
has pretensions toward literatureO
one toward the cultivation of errors arroganceX
and constantly changing disguises as trucker boxerO
valet barkeep in the aging taverns of memory Making loveG
to those speedy heroines of masturbation or kicking literal evilY
continually down filmy public stairsZ
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A compromiseA2
would be silence To shut up even such riskB2
as the proper placementM
of verbs and nouns To freeze the spitR
in mid air as it aims itselfC2
at some valiant intellectual's faceD2
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There would be someoneI
who would understand for whateverO
fancy reason Dead lying Roi as your childrenI
cane up would also rise As George Armstrong CusterO
these years has never madeE2
a mistakeF2

Amiri Baraka



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