The Japanese Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDCECCBCAACFCGHCI JKLCJBFMNOPQCRJSTULC| O lord he said Japanese women | A |
| real women they have not forgotten | A |
| bowing and smiling | B |
| closing the wounds men have made | C |
| but American women will kill you like they | D |
| tear a lampshade | C |
| American women care less than a dime | E |
| they ve gotten derailed | C |
| they re too nervous to make good | C |
| always scowling belly aching | B |
| disillusioned overwrought | C |
| but oh lord say the Japanese women | A |
| there was this one | A |
| I came home and the door was locked | C |
| and when I broke in she broke out the bread knife | F |
| and chased me under the bed | C |
| and her sister came | G |
| and they kept me under that bed for two days | H |
| and when I came out at last | C |
| she didn t mention attorneys | I |
| just said you will never wrong me again | J |
| and I didn t but she died on me | K |
| and dying said you can wrong me now | L |
| and I did | C |
| but you know I felt worse then | J |
| than when she was living | B |
| there was no voice no knife | F |
| nothing but little Japanese prints on the wall | M |
| all those tiny people sitting by red rivers | N |
| with flying green birds | O |
| and I took them down and put them face down | P |
| in a drawer with my shirts | Q |
| and it was the first time I realized | C |
| that she was dead even though I buried her | R |
| and some day I ll take them all out again | J |
| all the tan faced little people | S |
| sitting happily by their bridges and huts | T |
| and mountains | U |
| but not right now | L |
| not just yet | C |
Charles Bukowski
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