Sturgeon's Law

I'm curious why you put the poem in stanzas that all have the same number of lines.

As I read the poem, I don't find anything in it that seems to compel the stanzas as they are. They seem, I guess, kind of arbitrary, as though the poem is just following a rule.

To some extent, this is a reaction I have to a lot of poems that have stanza that are all the same number of lines, especially when they don't use regular rhyme patterns or countable metric schemes. (I'm not pushing for rhyme and meter, rather questioning the regulated stanzas which, to my ear, seem to be a vestige of an older way of writing that seems to run contrary to what else the poem is doing, the push and immediacy of the language.
 

Might want to recheck the rhyme and meter--it's loose, but it's there.
 

Groovy. Antonio never lived in the city, right? ; )

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