This poem was cool. i really enjoyed reading it. Some things i didn't quite get, but others i believe i picked up on. So, to answer the question, i believe that the poem is strewn out in various stanzas, as it describes the way one's life does. This is a progression of life for the author and probably relating to anyone really. He goes from late nights and "one-night cheap hotels"- the essence of fiery love and excitement in our society. He then proceeds to describe a dog, and his own physical aging with white hair and trousers etc. He goes on to describe himself walking along the beach with mermaids singing- the depiction of a paradise, an almost blurred scene of a movie or a dream, that foretells our personal view of heaven, with an almost universal generality. The lines are divied in various stanzas that sometimes start a new description or thought, and sometimes don't. This whole poem is a random stream of conciousness of life and it's process. i believe the author may have made the intentional structure, to have no structure at all. This is life. all the words are just describing it's randomness yet with its presence of underlying beauty.
