Monday, July 28, 2003

Poem at random

Elsie is on the road with her friend Louise, currently somewhere in the wilds of Virginia. Loise is visiting family and Elsie is researching family along the southern route. They've taken a leisurely route up, going through Memphis, TN, and Alabama.

Anway, Elsie left me with a poetry assignment. She took out her Word Book, and we each picked 10 words at random. The challenge was to create a poem using those ten words, in the same order they were chosen.

Sort of a variation on Dr. Omed's googled poetry.

Well, here's my first stab. See if you can guess which were the random words.

The pearlized essence of commutation
wafts through the interior elbow room
maze; foreign integers mass
on the aneurysm border.
Intelligence reports
a number of flint lock
teams facing a solitary soldier.
His kosher circumcision
may not be literal nor mythic
but the windows are resonant

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