Unclean Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFEGHIJKLMNOFP| I am like a pelican of the wilderness I am | A |
| like an owl of the desert I watch and am | A |
| as a sparrow alone upon the housetop | B |
| Psalm | C |
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| The pelican in scripture is unclean It pukes dead fish | D |
| onto the hatchlings and it roosts alone like Satan | E |
| on the Tree of Life Nobody told me I liked pelicans | F |
| I liked owls too I used to lie awake and listen | E |
| wanting to become an owl to fly to see through darkness | G |
| turn my head and look straight back behind me I was | H |
| happy as kids go but I did not belong in human form | I |
| Sparrows peck grain from fresh dung In this world rich | J |
| means filthy Leopardi in his high Romantic musings | K |
| on the sparrow does not say the poet is a shitbird just | L |
| that singing by himself he acts like one and wishes | M |
| he could feel more like one unashamed to do so Here | N |
| the preacher burning in his bones with fever puking | O |
| half digested fish and hooting sleepless in the ruins | F |
| like the baleful dead cries O Lord take me not away | P |
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