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"Poetry is the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash." Leonard Cohen
Showing posts with label Day 18. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Day 18. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

HOMOCONSONANTISM



Even though I came at this from several angles, I never really came up
with anything very satisfactory so finally went with the first thing I had, awkward as it is...not my favourite, I'm afraid.

Original statement: I guess the worst part was I liked it. (a quote by Johnny Depp about his character in the movie Transcendence) - sourced from the Edmonton Journal, Friday April 18, 2014, Section C, Movies and books.

Oulipost poem from the source text:

O aged ass
thy wurst port
west o' lucky
duet



FRIDAY, APRIL 18: HOMOCONSONANTISM
Choose a sentence or short passage from your newspaper to
complete a homoconsonantism. In this form, the sequence of
consonants in a source text is kept, while all its vowels are
replaced. For example:
ORIGINAL: To be or not to be: that is the question.
CONSONANTS ONLY: T b r n t t b t t s t h q s t n

FINAL PRODUCT: As burnt tibia: it heats the aqueous tone.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

MAKING CALLS



The voice travelling a continent wide sounds the same as ever it did across our back fence. I marvel at this, she is older than you were when you stopped breathing. She is resigned as soon as she hears who is calling, had planned to call me this weekend. You had missed her birthday, then Christmas - she knew, just didn't want to know. I am sadder for her than anyone I've told.