Sky Burial Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFGHIJK| Q You're Such a Disciplined Writer Were You Always That way | A |
| A When I was in graduate school I worked part time at a local | B |
| library I ran the used bookstore in the basement The money | C |
| came in handy There was plenty of time to study | C |
| I learned to know the regulars who talked about living with pain | D |
| and waiting for bland meals to be delivered | E |
| One sweltering afternoon I read about Tibetan body breakers | F |
| who dismember corpses with their hatchets and flaying knives | G |
| so the vultures will have an easier time | H |
| I imagined my own body and the monks asking What did this one | I |
| do And the answer would be Not much As the hand I could | J |
| have written with flew away from the wrist | K |
Ronald Koertge
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