Poem About People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL LMND KOPQ RSTU VWIA IXYZ A2B2C2D2 AE2TF2 ITG2E2 MH2I2J2 KIAL

The jaunty crop haired grayingA
Women in grocery storesB
Their clothes boyish and neatC
New mittens or clean sneakersD
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Clean hands hips not bad stillE
Buying ice cream steaks sodaF
Fresh melons and soap or the bigG
Balding young men in work shoesH
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And green work pants beer bellyI
And white T shirt the porky walkJ
Back to the truck polite possibleK
To feel briefly like JesusL
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A gust of diffuse tendernessL
Crossing the dark spacesM
To where the dry self burrowsN
Or nests something that stirsD
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Watching the kinds of peopleK
On the street for a whileO
But how love falters and flagsP
When anyone s difficult eyes comeQ
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Into focus terrible gaze of a uniqueR
Soul its need unlovable my friendS
In his divorced schoolteacherT
Apartment his own unsuspectedU
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Paintings hung everywhereV
Which his wife kept in a closetW
Not he says that she wasn tI
Perfectly right or me mis hearingA
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My rock radio sing my self pityI
The Angels Wished Him Dead allX
The hideous sudden stare of selfY
Soul showing through like the lizardZ
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Ancestry showing in the frontal gazeA2
Of a robin busy on the lawnB2
In the movies when the sensitiveC2
Young Jewish soldier nearly drownsD2
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Trying to rescue the thrashingA
Anti semitic bully swimming acrossE2
The river raked by nazi fireT
The awful part is the part truthF2
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Hate my whole kind but meI
Love me for myself The weatherT
Changes in the black of nightG2
And the dream wind bowling acrossE2
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The sopping open spacesM
Of roads golf courses parking lotsH2
Flails a commotionI2
In the dripping treetopsJ2
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Tries a half rotten shingleK
Or a down hung branch and weI
All dream it the dark wind crossingA
The wide spaces between usL

Robert Pinsky



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