Interrupt This Program (liberty Lotus) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCDEFGCCCHIJCCCKL CCMNOCPQRSRTTUIVOf badly behaved humans and pallid dust | A |
Split screen shows tall buildings in New York | B |
Make good targets for aeroplanes | C |
And the Pentagon burns like any other place | C |
Screen cuts to FBI files witnesses the flimsy | C |
Evidence a flight manual in Arabic | D |
And the President informed seems stunned | E |
Though eerily unsurprised The two gleaming | F |
Towers collapse again in slow motion | G |
The first time an event of such magnitude has | C |
Been broadcast using entirely digital technology | C |
A savvy CNN anchor comments | C |
Afghanistan's back on the US radar | H |
Special effects have improved since the Gulf War | I |
Events can be more easily edited and enhanced | J |
eg an instant retrospective beautifully | C |
Counterpoints Osama's calculated obsessiveness | C |
With a New York fireman's utter decency | C |
Terror moves fleshing out its agenda | K |
A talking head asked 'How do we process our anger ' | L |
Now's not the time to ask who armed and trained the zealots | C |
And why there always has to be an enemy | C |
Who helped destroy Afghanistan | M |
Why in some places peace can only mean sleep or death | N |
When do land mines come home to roost | O |
To whom do we address our regrets | C |
Or remember Hiroshima set the standard | P |
For breaking glass and Nagasaki was signed | Q |
Off to test another kind of atom bomb | R |
Well one nuke would have been enough | S |
How terror burned for years in Vietnam | R |
To satisfy unquenchable domestic thirst for fire Evil | T |
Pure and simple rained on the Vietnamese people | T |
The Vietnamese might forgive yet cannot forget | U |
Quite as easily as we can They say no more war | I |
Plant forests where the napalm burned | V |
S. K. Kelen
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