Delta Flight 659 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AABCDA EFDGHD IJHAEK ALMNDI AOFANA JDDJDP QJD| to Sean Penn | A |
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| I'm writing this on a plane Sean Penn | A |
| with my black Pilot Razor ballpoint pen | A |
| Ever since I'm a nervous flyer I leave my Pentium | B |
| Processor in Florida so TSA can't x ray my stanzas penetrate | C |
| my persona Maybe this should be in iambic pentameter | D |
| rather than this mock sestina each line ending in a Penn | A |
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| variant I convinced myself the ticket to Baghdad was too expensive | E |
| I contemplated going as a human shield I read in open | F |
| mouthed shock that your trip there was a expenditure | D |
| Is that true I watched you on Larry King Live his suspenders | G |
| and tie your open collar You saw the war's impending | H |
| mess My husband gambled on my penumbra | D |
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| of doubt So you station yourself at a food silo in Iraq What happens | I |
| to me if you get blown up He begged me to stay home be his Penelope | J |
| I sit alone in coach but last night I sat with four poets depending | H |
| on one another as readers in a Pittsburgh caf I tried to be your pen | A |
| pal in not because of your pensive | E |
| bad boy looks but because of a poem you'd penned | K |
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| that appeared in an issue of Frank I still see the poet in you Sean Penn | A |
| You probably think fans like me are your penance | L |
| for your popularity your star bulging into a pentagon | M |
| filled with witchy wanna bes and penniless | N |
| poets who waddle toward your icy peninsula | D |
| of glamour like so many menacing penguins | I |
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| But honest I come in peace Sean Penn | A |
| writing on my plane ride home I want no part of your penthouse | O |
| or the snowy slopes of your Aspen | F |
| I won't stalk you like the swirling grime cloud over Pig Pen | A |
| I have no script or stupendous | N |
| novel I want you to option I even like your wife Robin Wright Penn | A |
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| I only want to keep myself busy on this flight to tell you of four penny | J |
| loafered poets in Pennsylvania | D |
| who last night chomping on primavera penne | D |
| pasta pondered poetry celebrity Iraq the penitentiary | J |
| of free speech And how I reminded everyone that Sean Penn | D |
| once wrote a poem I peer out the window caress my lucky pendant | P |
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| Look Sean Penn the clouds are drawn with charcoal pencils | Q |
| The sky is opening like a child's first stab at penmanship | J |
| The sun begins to ripen orange then deepen | D |
Denise Duhamel
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