Calling Him Back From Layoff Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC AAD EFF GBG HIA JKL MNO OPQ RST UVS NWN XYN ZVA2 B2| I called a man today After he said | A |
| hello and I said hello came a pause | B |
| during which it would have been | C |
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| confusing to say hello again so I said | A |
| how are you doing and guess what he said | A |
| fine and wondered aloud how I was | D |
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| and it turns out I m OK He | E |
| was on the couch watching cars | F |
| painted with ads for Budweiser follow cars | F |
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| painted with ads for Tide around an oval | G |
| that s a metaphor for life because | B |
| most of us run out of gas and settle | G |
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| for getting drunk in the stands | H |
| and shouting at someone in a t shirt | I |
| we want kraut on our dog I said | A |
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| he could have his job back and during | J |
| the pause that followed his whiskers | K |
| scrubbed the mouthpiece clean | L |
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| and his breath passed in and out | M |
| in the tidal fashion popular | N |
| with mammals until he broke through | O |
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| with the words how soon thank you | O |
| ohmyGod which crossed his lips and drove | P |
| through the wires on the backs of ions | Q |
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| as one long word as one hard prayer | R |
| of relief meant to be heard | S |
| by the sky When he began to cry I tried | T |
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| with the shape of my silence to say | U |
| I understood but each confession | V |
| of fear and poverty was more awkward | S |
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| than what you learn in the shower | N |
| After he hung up I went outside and sat | W |
| with one hand in the bower of the other | N |
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| and thought if I turn my head to the left | X |
| it changes the song of the oriole | Y |
| and if I give a job to one stomach other | N |
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| forks are naked and if tonight a steak | Z |
| sizzles in his kitchen do the seven | V |
| other people staring at their phones | A2 |
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| hear | B2 |
Bob Hicok
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