Another Awkward Stage Of Convalescence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIIIJ IKILKM JCILNI OIGNPI GQIRIS TUIJVW XYZA2B2I B2B2PZCB2| Drunk I kissed the moon | A |
| where it stretched on the floor | B |
| I'd removed happiness from a green bottle | C |
| both sipped and gulped | D |
| just as a river changes its mind | E |
| mostly there was a flood in my mouth | F |
| - | |
| because I wanted to love the toaster | G |
| as soon as possible and the toothbrush | H |
| with multi level brissels | I |
| created by dental science and the walls | I |
| holding pictures in front of their faces | I |
| to veil the boredom of living | J |
| - | |
| fifty years without once | I |
| turning the other way I wanted | K |
| the halo a cheap beaujolais paints | I |
| over everything like artists gave the holy | L |
| before perspective was invented | K |
| and for a moment thought in the glow | M |
| - | |
| of fermented bliss that the bending | J |
| of spoons by the will was inevitable | C |
| just as the dark skinned would kiss | I |
| the light skinned and those with money | L |
| and lakefront homes would open | N |
| their verandas and offer trays | I |
| - | |
| of cucumber sandwiches to the poor | O |
| scuttling along the fringes of their lawns | I |
| looking for holes in the concertina wire | G |
| Of course I had to share this ocean | N |
| of acceptance and was soon on the phone | P |
| with a woman from Nogales whose hips | I |
| - | |
| had gone steady with mine I told her | G |
| I was over her by pretending I was just | Q |
| a friend calling to say the Snow Drops | I |
| had nuzzled through dirt to shake | R |
| their bells in April wind This | I |
| threw her off the scent of my anguish | S |
| - | |
| as did the cement mixer of my voice as did | T |
| the long pause during which I memorized | U |
| her breathing and stared at my toes | I |
| like we were still together reading | J |
| until out eyes slid from the page | V |
| and books fell off the bed to pound | W |
| - | |
| their applause as our tongues searched | X |
| each others' body When she said | Y |
| she had to go like a cop telling a bum | Z |
| to move on I began drinking downhill | A2 |
| with speed that grew its own speed | B2 |
| and fixed on this image with a flagellant's | I |
| - | |
| zeal how she returning to bed cupped | B2 |
| her lover's crotch and whispered not | B2 |
| to worry it was no one on the phone | P |
| and proved again how forgotten I'd become | Z |
| while I bent over the cold confessional | C |
| listened to the night's sole point of honesty | B2 |
Bob Hicok
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