Dropping The Euphemism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO PQR STU LVW XYZ A2A2B2 C2D2E2 F2G2H2 FI2J2 K2L2M2 N2O2P2 BQ2I2 R2S2T2 FU2V2 R2FW2He has five children I m papa | A |
to a hundred pencils | B |
I bought the chair he sat in | C |
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from a book of chairs | D |
staplers and spikes | E |
that let me play Vlad the Impaler | F |
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with invading memos When I said | G |
I have to lay you off | H |
a parallel universe was born | I |
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in his face one where flesh | J |
is a loose shirt | K |
taken to the river and beaten | L |
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against rocks Just | M |
by opening my mouth I destroyed | N |
his faith he s a man | O |
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who can think honey glazed ham | P |
and act out the thought | Q |
with plastic or bills We sat | R |
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I stared at my hands he stared | S |
at the wall staring at my hands | T |
I said other things | U |
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about the excellent work he d done | L |
and the cycles of business | V |
which are like | W |
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the roller coaster thoughts | X |
of an oscilloscope All this time | Y |
I saw the eyes of his wife | Z |
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which had always been brown | A2 |
like almonds but were now brown | A2 |
like the crust of bread We walked | B2 |
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to the door I shook his hand | C2 |
felt the bones pretending | D2 |
to be strong On his way home | E2 |
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there was a happy song | F2 |
because de Sade invented radio | G2 |
the window was open he saw | H2 |
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delphinium but couldn t remember | F |
the name I can only guess | I2 |
Maybe at each exit | J2 |
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that could have led his body | K2 |
to Tempe to Mars he was tempted | L2 |
to forget his basketball team | M2 |
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of sons or that he ever liked | N2 |
helping his wife clean carrots | O2 |
the silver sink turning orange | P2 |
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Running s natural to most animals | B |
who aren t part | Q2 |
of a lecture series on Nature s | I2 |
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Dead Ends When I told him | R2 |
I saw he was looking for a place | S2 |
in his brain to hide | T2 |
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his brain I tried that later | F |
with beer it worked until I stood | U2 |
at the toilet to make my little | V2 |
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waterfall and thought of him | R2 |
pushing back from a bar | F |
to go make the same noise | W2 |
Bob Hicok
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