Attack Of The Squash People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHJ KLEEELM ENEEOPQJER STTET UGTVTTTWXAnd thus the people every year | A |
in the valley of humid July | B |
did sacrifice themselves | C |
to the long green phallic god | D |
and eat and eat and eat | E |
They're coming they're on us | F |
the long striped gourds the silky | G |
babies the hairy adolescents | H |
the lumpy vast adults | I |
like the trunks of green elephants | H |
Recite fifty zucchini recipes | J |
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Zucchini tempura creamed soup | K |
saut with olive oil and cumin | L |
tomatoes onion frittata | E |
casserole of lamb baked | E |
topped with cheese marinated | E |
stuffed stewed driven | L |
through the heart like a stake | M |
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Get rid of old friends they too | E |
have gardens and full trunks | N |
Look for newcomers befriend | E |
them in the post office unload | E |
on them and run Stop tourists | O |
in the street Take truckloads | P |
to Boston Give to your Red Cross | Q |
Beg on the highway please | J |
take my zucchini I have a crippled | E |
mother at home with heartburn | R |
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Sneak out before dawn to drop | S |
them in other people's gardens | T |
in baby buggies at churchdoors | T |
Shot smuggling zucchini into | E |
mailboxes a federal offense | T |
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With a suave reptilian glitter | U |
you bask among your raspy | G |
fronds sudden and huge as | T |
alligators You give and give | V |
too much like summer days | T |
limp with heat thunderstorms | T |
bursting their bags on our heads | T |
as we salt and freeze and pickle | W |
for the too little to come | X |
Marge Piercy
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