Lines For The Fortune Cookies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E F G G H I J K L M N K O H G L G F F P I M Q J| Jackie Kennedy has a baby boy so will you even bigger | A |
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| You will meet a tall beautiful blonde stranger and you will not say hello | B |
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| You will take a long trip and you will be very happy though alone | C |
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| You will marry the first person who tells you your eyes are like scrambled eggs | D |
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| In the beginning there was YOU there will always be YOU I guess | E |
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| You will write a great play and it will run for three performances | F |
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| Please phone The Village Voice immediately they want to interview you | G |
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| Roger L Stevens and Kermit Bloomgarden have their eyes on you | G |
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| Relax a little one of your most celebrated nervous tics will be your undoing | H |
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| Your first volume of poetry will be published as soon as you finish it | I |
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| You may be a hit uptown but downtown you're legendary | J |
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| Your walk has a musical quality which will bring you fame and fortune | K |
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| You will eat cake | L |
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| Who do you think you are anyway Jo Van Fleet | M |
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| You think your life is like Pirandello but it's really like O'Neill | N |
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| A few dance lessons with James Waring and who knows Maybe something will happen | K |
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| That's not a run in your stocking it's a hand on your leg | O |
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| I realize you've lived in France but that doesn't mean you know EVERYTHING | H |
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| You should wear white more often it becomes you | G |
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| The next person to speak to you will have a very intriquing proposal to make | L |
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| A lot of people in this room wish they were you | G |
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| Have you been to Mike Goldberg's show Al Leslie's Lee Krasner's | F |
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| At times your disinterestedness may seem insincere to strangers | F |
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| Now that the election's over what are you going to do with yourself | P |
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| You are a prisoner in a croissant factory and you love it | I |
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| You eat meat Why do you eat meat | M |
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| Beyond the horizon there is a vale of gloom | Q |
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| You too could be Premier of France if only if only | J |
Frank O'hara
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