For Molly, Concerning God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFFGHIJKLDMAENAE GOGD PGQRGAAAHSTAUHAVGTTW RTGIXATAEAAEYAZYAA2A HU TB2C2D2GE2A AGA XEAA| Is God the one who eats the meat | A |
| off the bones of dead people | B |
| Molly Miranda Jong Fast age | C |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| Meat is our | G |
| element | O |
| meat is our | G |
| lesson | D |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| To think that | A |
| such wonder | G |
| can come from meat | A |
| - | |
| Well then | X |
| if God is hungry | E |
| let Him eat | A |
| let Her eat | A |
Erica Jong
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