For Molly, Concerning God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFFGHIJKLDMAENAE GOGD PGQRGAAAHSTAUHAVGTTW RTGIXATAEAAEYAZYAA2A HU TB2C2D2GE2A AGA XEAAIs God the one who eats the meat | A |
off the bones of dead people | B |
Molly Miranda Jong Fast age | C |
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God is the one | D |
Molly | E |
whether we call him | F |
Him | F |
or Her | G |
treeform or spewing | H |
volcano | I |
Vesuvius or vulva | J |
penis rock | K |
or reindeer on cave wall | L |
God is the one | D |
who eats | M |
our meat | A |
Molly | E |
we yield | N |
our meat | A |
up willingly | E |
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Meat is our | G |
element | O |
meat is our | G |
lesson | D |
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When our bodies fill | P |
with each other | G |
when our blood swells | Q |
in our organs | R |
aching for another | G |
body of meat | A |
heart of meat | A |
soul of meat | A |
we are only doing | H |
what God wants | S |
us to | T |
meat joining meat | A |
to become insubstantial air | U |
meat fusing | H |
with meat | A |
to make | V |
a small wonder | G |
like you | T |
The wonder of you | T |
is that you push | W |
our questions | R |
along into | T |
the future | G |
so that I know | I |
again | X |
the wonder of meat | A |
through you | T |
the wonder of meat | A |
turning to philosophy | E |
the wonder of meat | A |
transubstantiated | A |
into poetry | E |
the wonder of | Y |
sky blue meat | A |
in your roundest eyes | Z |
the wonder of | Y |
dawn colored meat | A |
in your cheeks palms | A2 |
the wonder of meat | A |
becoming | H |
air | U |
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You | T |
are my theorem | B2 |
my proof | C2 |
my meaty metaphysics | D2 |
my little questioner | G |
my small Socrates | E2 |
of the nursery schoolyard | A |
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To think that | A |
such wonder | G |
can come from meat | A |
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Well then | X |
if God is hungry | E |
let Him eat | A |
let Her eat | A |
Erica Jong
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