Industrial Revelation
It is because of you
that I lie on my back tonight
with my arms over my head--
I feel independent.
The industrial numb of my oscillating fan
strengthening the vacillating thoughts
that flow from my assembly line of conniptions.
In my bed, I am the Henry Ford of our relationship,
and the capitalism and nuts and bolts
and metal on metal dull everything--
methodic mechanical lullaby.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABCDEFFGHIJ |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 373 |
Words | 67 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
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