Notes To My Nieces (or, Essays In Fortune-telling ) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDE FGHAIJKL IMNO PNCQ BRSTUVW| when i was younger trees | A |
| were green money was green money | B |
| grew on trees or trees grew up | C |
| and became money now money is clearly | B |
| plastic spreads like cancer getting it | D |
| is genetic | E |
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| trust me on this g o d stands | F |
| for good old days and if you have enough | G |
| faith you can remember them almost | H |
| like you were there on your knees | A |
| with us scrubbing them clean or | I |
| praying for the millennium that next life | J |
| when the g o d would be n e w not | K |
| especially white | L |
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| question your | I |
| mother is black and your father is loving | M |
| answer what's loving got to do | N |
| with virginia | O |
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| i fear | P |
| that your cows ain't like mine that you | N |
| won't understand why i gave up | C |
| red meat | Q |
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| say the past is a muddy | B |
| river say the future is a belated alphabet | R |
| with which you and i might spell | S |
| different things say the present | T |
| is something we can pass back and forth | U |
| between us like an acorn like | V |
| loose change | W |
Evie Shockley
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