Twenty Cigarettes and One More Night
Twenty cigarettes one more night
It’s been such a long time baby
Twenty cigarettes one more night
Such a long, long time
Waiting shadows of illumination
Beaten back bloody frustration
Ego trip soulful castration
Past lines of demarcation
Love or curious fascination
My rebirth your assassination
Twenty cigarettes one more night
It’s been such a long time baby
Twenty cigarettes and one more night
Such a long, long time
About this poem
Waiting for the click of an artificial heart valve in the night.
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Written on December 23, 1992
Submitted by tapedoc on October 18, 2023
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Scheme | ABAC dddddd ABaC |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 426 |
Words | 71 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 4 |
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