Embrace Noir Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EF GH IJ KL LM JN JO PQ JR STI go back to the scene where the two men embrace | A |
grapple a handgun at stomach level between them | B |
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They jerk around the apartment like that | C |
holding on to each other their cheeks | D |
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almost touching One is shirtless the other | E |
wears a suit the one in the suit came in through a window | F |
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to steal documents or diamonds it doesn't matter anymore | G |
which what's important is he was found | H |
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someone pulled a gun and now they are holding on | I |
awkwardly dancing through the room upending | J |
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a table of small framed photographs A chair | K |
topples Sinatra's band punches the air with horns I | L |
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lean forward into the screen they are eye to eye | L |
as stiff as my brother amp me when we attempt | M |
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to hug Soon the gun fires and the music | J |
quiets the camera stops tracking and they | N |
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relax shoulders drop their jaws go slack | J |
we are all suspended in that perfect moment | O |
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when no one knows who took the bullet | P |
the earth spins below our feet a blanket of swallows | Q |
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changes direction suddenly above us folding | J |
into the rafters of a barn and the two men | R |
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no longer struggle they simply stand in their wreckage | S |
propped in each other's arms | T |
Nick Flynn
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