"To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage"
Our magnolia blossoms.Life begins to happen.
My hopped up husband drops his home disputes,
and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes,
free-lancing out along the razor's edge.
This screwball might kill his wife, then take the pledge.
Oh the monotonous meanness of his lust. . .
It's the injustice . . . he is so unjust--
whiskey-blind, swaggering home at five.
My only thought is how to keep alive.
What makes him tick?Each night now I tie
ten dollars and his car key to my thigh. . . .
Gored by the climacteric of his want,
he stalls above me like an elephant."
>Lines 3&4 end in rhyming words "disputes" "prostitutes"
>Lines 1 and 2 are quick sentences and when it gets to 3-5 gets long.
>Lines 7&8 once again end with rhyme words "Lust" "unjust" and also in line 8 "injustice" kind of makes larger rhyme.
>The last to lines once again with rhyming words "want" "elephant"
>Actually now that I look at it the whole poem rhymes on the last two words except for the first 2 lines. Perhaps he was inspired to rhyme after the first two lines?
>This whole poem is a "quote"
>He goes from narrating to a single question just before the end of the poem and returns to narrating.
>There are 8 sentences in this piece.
>He uses three extended periods three times.
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