Jazz Poem 1

Matthew Sean Markonis 1984 (Santa Barbara)



Other people gather ‘round

The truth has come at last!

But I don’t see it,
I only see its shell.

I see it’s gone around and turned its back.

Why for, wherefore?
Hell, Hell.

I see its shell.

I see a baby’s stiff white fingers
molding and moistening a piggy bank, as well.

The egg that fell,
the guardian that swept him up.

Hell, Hell.

I only see its shell.
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Written on December 10, 2002

Submitted by msmarkonis on January 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

27 sec read
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Quick analysis:

Scheme x x xA x xa a xa ax A
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 372
Words 90
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1

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