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Twenty Cigarettes and One More Night

William Fuqua 1957 (Bama)

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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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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAC dddddd ABaC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 426
Words 71
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 4
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