About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFFDBHIJAKL MNBBBOKPKMD MQRSJT FMUIDAVFWJXY FKNRBKZA2FJBLB2FC2D2 ZBE2TF2A2KIG2B2SH2I2 UJ2K2FFB2L2NWNT IRI2 I2M2UH2| killing him | A |
| he is I am I can t seem to | B |
| get rid of | C |
| him his novels keep coming | D |
| back what do you expect me to do he screams | E |
| go to New York and pump the hands of the | F |
| publishers | G |
| no I tell him but quit your job go into a | F |
| small room and do the | F |
| thing | D |
| but I need ASSURANCE I need something to | B |
| go by some word some sign | H |
| some men did not think that way | I |
| Van Gogh Wagner | J |
| oh hell Van Gogh had a brother who gave him | A |
| paints whenever he | K |
| needed them | L |
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| look he said I m over at this broad s house today and | M |
| this guy walks in a salesman you know | N |
| how they talk drove up in this new | B |
| car talked about his vacation said he went to | B |
| Frisco saw Fidelio up there but forgot who | B |
| wrote it now this guy is years | O |
| old so I told him Fidelio is Beethoven s only | K |
| opera and then I told | P |
| him you re a jerk whatcha mean he | K |
| asked I mean you re a jerk you re years old and | M |
| you don t know anything | D |
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| what happened | M |
| then | Q |
| I walked out | R |
| you mean you left him there with | S |
| her | J |
| yes | T |
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| I can t quit my job he said I always have trouble getting a | F |
| job I walk in they look at me listen to me talk and | M |
| they think right away ah ha he s too intelligent for | U |
| this job he won t stay | I |
| so there s really no sense in hiring | D |
| him | A |
| now YOU walk into a place and you don t have any trouble | V |
| you look like an old wino you look like a guy who needs a | F |
| job and they look at you and they think | W |
| ah ha now here s a guy who really needs work if we hire | J |
| him he ll stay a long time and work | X |
| HARD | Y |
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| do any of those people he asks know you are a | F |
| writer that you write poetry | K |
| no | N |
| you never talk about | R |
| it not even to | B |
| me if I hadn t seen you in that magazine I d | K |
| have never known | Z |
| that s right | A2 |
| still I d like to tell these people that you are a | F |
| writer | J |
| I d still like to | B |
| tell them | L |
| why | B2 |
| well they talk about you they think you are just a | F |
| horseplayer and a drunk | C2 |
| I am both of those | D2 |
| well they talk about you you have odd ways you travel alone | Z |
| I m the only friend you | B |
| have | E2 |
| yes | T |
| they talk you down I d like to defend you I d like to tell | F2 |
| them you write | A2 |
| poetry | K |
| leave it alone I work here like they | I |
| do we re all the same | G2 |
| well I d like to do it for myself then I want them to know why | B2 |
| I travel with | S |
| you I speak languages I know my music | H2 |
| forget it | I2 |
| all right I ll respect your | U |
| wishes but there s something else | J2 |
| what | K2 |
| I ve been thinking about getting a | F |
| piano but then I ve been thinking about getting a | F |
| violin too but I can t make up my | B2 |
| mind | L2 |
| buy a piano | N |
| you think | W |
| so | N |
| yes | T |
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| he walks away | I |
| thinking about | R |
| it | I2 |
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| I was thinking about it | I2 |
| too I figure he can always come over with his | M2 |
| violin and more | U |
| sad music | H2 |
Charles Bukowski
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