Tomorrow, I'll Get It Right
Drunk in Barstow,
waiting for a waitress,
who’s working till 2:00 a.m.
The crap game cleaned me,
two bums on the pool table,
snoring louder than a train
Drunk in Barstow,
for the seventh time this month,
I just never seem to learn
The waitress said,
“My boyfriend’s gone,
truck’s on the road to Bern”
Drunk in Barstow,
living on borrowed time,
the repo man at hand
I swear tomorrow
I’ll get it right,
tonight—any way I can
(Barstow California: July, 1991)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 01, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | Axx xxx Axb xxb Axx axx x |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 452 |
Words | 84 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
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