Exquisite Politics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJDKLLMN D| The perfect voter has a smile but no eyes | A |
| maybe not even a nose or hair on his or her toes | B |
| maybe not even a single sperm cell ovum little paramecium | C |
| Politics is a slug copulating in a Poughkeepsie garden | D |
| Politics is a grain of rice stuck in the mouth | E |
| of a king I voted for a clump of cells | F |
| anything to believe in true as rain sure as red wheat | G |
| I carried my ballots around like smokes pondered big questions | H |
| resources and need stars and planets prehistoric | I |
| languages I sat on Alice's mushroom in Central Park | J |
| smoked longingly in the direction of the mayor's mansion | D |
| Someday I won't politic anymore my big heart will stop | K |
| loving America and I'll leave her as easy as a marriage | L |
| splitting our assets hoping to get the advantage | L |
| before the other side yells Wow America | M |
| Vespucci's first name and home of free and brave Te amo | N |
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| by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton | D |
Denise Duhamel
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