Emptying Town Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GH IJK L MIN L IOLP LQ IRM S| I want to erase your footprints | A |
| from my walls Each pillow | B |
| is thick with your reasons Omens | C |
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| fill the sidewalk below my window a woman | D |
| in a party hat clinging | E |
| to a tin foil balloon Shadows | F |
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| creep slowly across the tar someone yells Stop | G |
| and I close my eyes I can't watch | H |
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| as this town slowly empties leaving me | I |
| strung between bon voyages like so many clothes | J |
| on a line the white handkerchief | K |
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| stuck in my throat You know the way Jesus | L |
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| rips open his shirt | M |
| to show us his heart all flaming and thorny | I |
| the way he points to it I'm afraid | N |
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| the way I'll miss you will be this obvious | L |
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| I have a friend who everyone warns me | I |
| is dangerous he hides | O |
| bloody images of Jesus | L |
| around my house for me to find | P |
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| when I come home Jesus | L |
| behind the cupboard door Jesus tucked | Q |
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| into the mirror He wants to save me | I |
| but we disagree from what My version of hell | R |
| is someone ripping open his shirt | M |
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| and saying Look what I did for you | S |
Nick Flynn
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