To The Pay Toilet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHAIJHIEKLHMNA| You strop my anger especially | A |
| when I find you in restaurant or bar | B |
| and pay for the same liquid coming and going | C |
| In bus depots and airports and turnpike plazas | D |
| some woman is dragging in with three kids hung off her | E |
| shrieking their simple urgency like gulls | F |
| She's supposed to pay for each of them | G |
| and the privilege of not dirtying the corporate floor | H |
| Sometimes a woman in a uniform's on duty | A |
| black or whatever the prevailing bottom is | I |
| getting thirty cents an hour to make sure | J |
| no woman sneaks her full bladder under a door | H |
| Most blatantly you shout that waste of resources | I |
| for the greatest good of the smallest number | E |
| where twenty pay toilets line up glinty clean | K |
| and at the end of the row one free toilet | L |
| oozes from under its crooked door | H |
| while a row of weary women carrying packages and babies | M |
| wait and wait and wait to do | N |
| what only the dead find unnecessary | A |
Marge Piercy
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