You Asked How (formerly Even Now She Is Turning, Saying Everything I Always Wanted Her To Say) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HGIJKLM NOPQRSTUMVWVEX| At the end there were straws | A |
| in her glove compartment I'd split them open | B |
| to taste the familiar bitter residue near the end | C |
| I ate all her Percodans hungry to know | D |
| how far they could take me | E |
| A bottle of red wine each night moved her along | F |
| as she wrote I feel too much again and again | G |
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| You asked how and I said Suicide and you asked | H |
| how and I said An overdose and then | G |
| she shot herself and your eyes filled | I |
| with wonder so I added In the chest so you | J |
| wouldn't think | K |
| her face was gone and it mattered somehow | L |
| that you knew this | M |
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| Every year I'm eight years old and the world | N |
| is no longer safe Our phone becomes unlisted our mail | O |
| is kept in a box at the post office | P |
| and my mother tells me always | Q |
| leave a light on so it seems | R |
| someone is home She finds a cop | S |
| for her next boyfriend his hair | T |
| greasy pushed back with his fingers He lets me play | U |
| with his service revolver while they kiss | M |
| on the couch Cars slowly fill the windows and I aim | V |
| making the noise with my mouth in case it's them | W |
| and when his back is hunched over her I aim | V |
| between his shoulder blades silently | E |
| in case it's him | X |
Nick Flynn
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