Hot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHJKILMNFKOH PQLLRLSATKUHVWHOUXYZ A2 B2C2D2B2D2E2 K F2G2H2KA2I2J2FAe her | A |
and if I didn't get home on time | B |
she'd be gone and I couldn't bear that | C |
I'd go mad | D |
it was foolish I know childish | E |
but I was caught in it I was caught | F |
I delivered all the mail | G |
and then Henderson put me on the night pickup run | H |
in an old army truck | I |
the damn thing began to heat halfway through the run | H |
and the night went on | J |
me thinking about my hot Miriam | K |
and jumping in and out of the truck | I |
filling mailsacks | L |
the engine continuing to heat up | M |
the temperature needle was at the top | N |
HOT HOT | F |
like Miriam | K |
leaped in and out | O |
more pickups and into the station | H |
I'd be my car | P |
waiting to get me to Miriam who sat on my blue couch | Q |
with scotch on the rocks | L |
crossing her legs and swinging her ankles | L |
like she did | R |
more stops | L |
the truck stalled at a traffic light it was hell | S |
kicking it over | A |
again | T |
I had to be home by was the deadline for Miriam | K |
I made the last pickup and the truck stalled at a signal | U |
block from the station | H |
it wouldn't start it couldn't start | V |
I locked the doors pulled the key and ran down to the | W |
station | H |
I threw the keys down signed out | O |
your goddamned truck is stalled at the signal | U |
I shouted | X |
Pico and Western | Y |
I ran down the hall put the key into the door | Z |
opened it her drinking glass was there and a note | A2 |
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sun of a bitch | B2 |
I waited until after ate | C2 |
you don't love me | D2 |
you sun of a bitch | B2 |
somebody will love me | D2 |
I been wateing all day | E2 |
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Miriam | K |
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I poured a drink and let the water run into the tub | F2 |
there were bars in town | G2 |
and I'd make of them | H2 |
looking for Miriam | K |
her purple teddy bear held the note | A2 |
as he leaned against a pillow | I2 |
I gave the bear a drink myself a drink | J2 |
and got into the hot | F |
water | A |
Charles Bukowski
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