Crucifix In A Deathhand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHDIIIJKLMINDD OICHPPCQDPDDLDIRIDST UIIDVDIDJWIIXIYIWEIJ ZX| yes they begin out in a willow I think | A |
| the starch mountains begin out in the willow | B |
| and keep right on going without regard for | C |
| pumas and nectarines | D |
| somehow these mountains are like | E |
| an old woman with a bad memory and | F |
| a shopping basket | G |
| we are in a basin that is the | H |
| idea down in the sand and the alleys | D |
| this land punched in cuffed out divided | I |
| held like a crucifix in a deathhand | I |
| this land bought resold bought again and | I |
| sold again the wars long over | J |
| the Spaniards all the way back in Spain | K |
| down in the thimble again and now | L |
| real estaters subdividers landlords freeway | M |
| engineers arguing this is their land and | I |
| I walk on it live on it a little while | N |
| near Hollywood here I see young men in rooms | D |
| listening to glazed recordings | D |
| and I think too of old men sick of music | O |
| sick of everything and death like suicide | I |
| I think is sometimes voluntary and to get your | C |
| hold on the land here it is best to return to the | H |
| Grand Central Market see the old Mexican women | P |
| the poor I am sure you have seen these same women | P |
| many years before | C |
| arguing | Q |
| with the same young Japanese clerks | D |
| witty knowledgeable and golden | P |
| among their soaring store of oranges apples | D |
| avocados tomatoes cucumbers | D |
| and you know how | L |
| these | D |
| look they do look good | I |
| as if you could eat them all | R |
| light a cigar and smoke away the bad world | I |
| then it's best to go back to the bars the same bars | D |
| wooden stale merciless green | S |
| with the young policeman walking through | T |
| scared and looking for trouble | U |
| and the beer is still bad | I |
| it has an edge that already mixes with vomit and | I |
| decay and you've got to be strong in the shadows | D |
| to ignore it to ignore the poor and to ignore yourself | V |
| and the shopping bag between your legs | D |
| down there feeling good with its avocados and | I |
| oranges and fresh fish and wine bottles who needs | D |
| a Fort Lauderdale winter | J |
| years ago there used to be a whore there | W |
| with a film over one eye who was too fat | I |
| and made little silver bells out of cigarette | I |
| tinfoil the sun seemed warmer then | X |
| although this was probably not | I |
| true and you take your shopping bag | Y |
| outside and walk along the street | I |
| and the green beer hangs there | W |
| just above your stomach like | E |
| a short and shameful shawl and | I |
| you look around and no longer | J |
| see any | Z |
| old men | X |
Charles Bukowski
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