The Sun Wields Mercy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJGCKLMNOPQR CRSTUCOCVWCRXYZUA2XB 2C2ZWCWD2CE2F2CG2AWW WWCWG2WH2CWI2J2AK2UC WL2WCM2N2N2RCAZKO2O2 J2P2RL J2| and the sun wields mercy | A |
| but like a jet torch carried to high | B |
| and the jets whip across its sight | C |
| and rockets leap like toads | D |
| and the boys get out the maps | E |
| and pin cushion the moon | F |
| old green cheese | G |
| no life there but too much on earth | H |
| our unwashed India boys | I |
| crossing their legs playing pipes | J |
| starving with sucked in bellies | G |
| watching the snakes volute | C |
| like beautiful women in the hungry air | K |
| the rockets leap | L |
| the rockets leap like hares | M |
| clearing clump and dog | N |
| replacing out dated bullets | O |
| the Chinese still carve | P |
| in jade quietly stuffing rice | Q |
| into their hunger a hunger | R |
| a thousand years old | C |
| their muddy rivers moving with fire | R |
| and song barges houseboats | S |
| pushed by drifting poles | T |
| of waiting without wanting | U |
| in Turkey they face the East | C |
| on their carpets | O |
| praying to a purple god | C |
| who smokes and laughs | V |
| and sticks fingers in their eyes | W |
| blinding them as gods will do | C |
| but the rockets are ready peace is no longer | R |
| for some reason precious | X |
| madness drifts like lily pads | Y |
| on a pond circling senselessly | Z |
| the painters paint dipping | U |
| their reds and greens and yellows | A2 |
| poets rhyme their loneliness | X |
| musicians starve as always | B2 |
| and the novelists miss the mark | C2 |
| but not the pelican the gull | Z |
| pelicans dip and dive rise | W |
| shaking shocked half dead | C |
| radioactive fish from their beaks | W |
| indeed indeed the waters wash | D2 |
| the rocks with slime and on wall st | C |
| the market staggers like a lost drunk | E2 |
| looking for his key ah | F2 |
| this will be a good one by God | C |
| it will take us back to the | G2 |
| sabre teeth the winged monkey | A |
| scrabbling in pits over bits | W |
| of helmet instrument and glass | W |
| a lightning crashes across | W |
| the window and in a million rooms | W |
| lovers lie entwined and lost | C |
| and sick as peace | W |
| the sky still breaks red and orange for the | G2 |
| painters and for the lovers | W |
| flowers open as they always have | H2 |
| opened but covered with thin dust | C |
| of rocket fuel and mushrooms | W |
| poison mushrooms it's a bad time | I2 |
| a dog sick time curtain | J2 |
| act standing room only | A |
| SOLD OUT SOLD OUT SOLD OUT again | K2 |
| by god by somebody and something | U |
| by rockets and generals and | C |
| leaders by poets doctors comedians | W |
| by manufacturers of soup | L2 |
| and biscuits Janus faced hucksters | W |
| of their own indexterity | C |
| I can now see now the coal slick | M2 |
| contaminated fields a snail or | N2 |
| bile obsidian a fish or | N2 |
| in the shallows an obloquy of our | R |
| source and our sight | C |
| has this happened before is history | A |
| a circle that catches itself by the tail | Z |
| a dream a nightmare | K |
| a general's dream a presidents dream | O2 |
| a dictators dream | O2 |
| can't we awaken | J2 |
| or are the forces of life greater than we are | P2 |
| can't we awaken must we forever | R |
| dear friends die in our sleep | L |
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| Anonymous submission | J2 |
Charles Bukowski
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