Paper Cuts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEEFGH IJEBKL MNMONP QERSE MTUEV WXYZ BA2B2C2D2| Endless duplication of lives and objects | A |
| Theodore Roethke | B |
| - | |
| I have known the imperial power of secretaries | C |
| the awesome indifference of receptionists | D |
| I have been intimidated by desk typewriter | E |
| by the silver jaws of the stapler | E |
| the lecherous kiss of the mucilage | F |
| the unctuousness of rubber cement | G |
| before it dries | H |
| - | |
| I have been afraid of telephones | I |
| have put my mouth to their stale tobacco breath | J |
| have been jarred to terror | E |
| by their jangling midnight music | B |
| their sudden blackness | K |
| even when they are white | L |
| - | |
| I have been afraid in elevators | M |
| amid the satin hiss of cables | N |
| the silky lisping of air conditioners | M |
| the helicopter blades of fans | O |
| I have seen time killed in the office jungles | N |
| of undeclared war | P |
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| My fear has crept into the paper guillotine | Q |
| voyaged to the Arctic Circle of the water cooler | E |
| My fear has followed me into the locked Ladies Room | R |
| down the iron fire stairs | S |
| to the postage meter | E |
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| I have seen the mailroom women like lost letters | M |
| frayed around the edges | T |
| I have seen the Xerox room men | U |
| shuffling in out among each other | E |
| like cards in identical decks | V |
| - | |
| I have come to tell you I have survived | W |
| I bring you chains of paperclips instead of emeralds | X |
| I bring you lottery tickets instead of poems | Y |
| I bring you mucilage instead of love | Z |
| - | |
| I lay my body out before you on the desk | B |
| I spread my hair amid a maze of rubber stamps | A2 |
| RUSH SPECIAL DELIVERY DO NOT BEND | B2 |
| I am open will you lick me like an envelope | C2 |
| I am bleeding will you kiss my paper cuts | D2 |
Erica Jong
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