Big Night On The Town Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNKOPMQR MSTUVWX YEY YZSEMZVVA2drunk on the dark streets of some city | A |
it's night you're lost where's your | B |
room | C |
you enter a bar to find yourself | D |
order scotch and water | E |
damned bar's sloppy wet it soaks | F |
part of one of your shirt | G |
sleeves | H |
It's a clip joint the scotch is weak | I |
you order a bottle of beer | J |
Madame Death walks up to you | K |
wearing a dress | L |
she sits down you buy her a | M |
beer she stinks of swamps presses | N |
a leg against you | K |
the bar tender sneers | O |
you've got him worried he doesn't | P |
know if you're a cop a killer a | M |
madman or an | Q |
Idiot | R |
you ask for a vodka | M |
you pour the vodka into the top of | S |
the beer bottle | T |
It's one a m In a dead cow world | U |
you ask her how much for head | V |
drink everything down it tastes | W |
like machine oil | X |
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you leave Madame Death there | Y |
you leave the sneering bartender | E |
there | Y |
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you have remembered where | Y |
your room is | Z |
the room with the full bottle of | S |
wine on the dresser | E |
the room with the dance of the | M |
roaches | Z |
Perfection in the Star Turd | V |
where love died | V |
laughing | A2 |
Charles Bukowski
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