Two poems
Co. Fund
No food
fork for church
book buy off
your gov work
Of on or by now
down for you
A Local Flood
Local run off
Gulf your
way back for
now no bank could
loan for a land
a hard fork road
no church
for all your work
Poems were constructed from numerous articles in Seattle Times 02 April 2014: A1. Print.
Note on composition and process:
Both poems are Lipograms of the front page of today’s Seattle Times (April 2. 2014). You can read the full prompt here. The first excludes all the letters from the full name of the paper ( Seattle Times — s,e,a,t,l,i,m). The second poem only excludes the letters t,i,m,e,s. I put the entire front page of today’s Times through a javascript app for lipograms created by fellow Ouliposter Doug Luman. I then weeded out the symbols, numbers, and excess redundancies. Working without e’s and i’s (and in the first a’s) is not an easy task. I actually nearly finished textually compiling the A section of the paper, so maybe I’ll work out a short sequence from these when I have time.
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