Tender Arrivals Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJHKLMMNMMOP QMRMQMSTGMUGBMORMVW| Where ever something breathes | A |
| Heart beating the rise and fall | B |
| Of mountains the waves upon the sky | C |
| Of seas the terror is our ignorance that's | D |
| Why it is named after our home earth | E |
| Where art is locked between | F |
| Gone and Destination | G |
| The destiny of some other where and feeling | H |
| The ape knew this when his old lady pulled him up | I |
| Off the ground Was he grateful ask him he's still sitting up there | J |
| Watching the sky's adventures leaving two holes for his own Oh sing | H |
| Gigantic burp past the insects swifter than the ugly Stanleys on the ground | K |
| Catching monkey meat for Hyenagators absolute boss of what does not | L |
| Arrive in time to say anything We hear that eating that doo dooing that | M |
| Burping we had a nigro mayor used to burp like poison zapalote | M |
| Waddled into the cave of his lust We got a Spring Jasper now if | N |
| you don't like that | M |
| woid what about courtesan dreamed out his own replacement sprawled | M |
| Across the velvet cash register of belching and farting his knick names when they | O |
| let him be played with Some call him Puck was love we thought now a rubber | P |
| Flat blackie banged across the ice to get past our Goli the Africannibus of memory | Q |
| Here We have so many wedged between death and passivity Like eyes that collide | M |
| With reality and cannot see anything but the inner abstraction of flatus a | R |
| biography a car a walk to the guillotine James the First Giuliani the Second | M |
| When he tries to go national senators will stab him Ides of March or Not Maybe | Q |
| Both will die James and Caesar as they did in the past where we can read about | M |
| The justness of their assassinations | S |
| As we swig a little brew and laugh at the perseverance | T |
| Of disease at higher and higher levels of its elimination | G |
| We could see anything we wanted to Be anything we knew how to be Build | M |
| anything we needed Arrive anywhere we should have to go But time is as stubborn | U |
| as space and they compose us with definition time place and condition | G |
| The howlees the yowlees the yankees the super left streamlined post racial ideational | B |
| chauvinists creeep at the mouth of the venal cava They are protesting fire and | M |
| Looking askance at the giblets we have learned to eat It's nobody's heart they | O |
| say and we agree It's the rest of some thing's insides Along with the flowers the | R |
| grass the tubers the river pieces of the sky earth our seasoning baked | M |
| throughout What do you call that the anarchist of comfort asks | V |
| Food we say making it up as we chew Yesterday we explained language | W |
Amiri Baraka
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