Every day this April, nearly 80 poets will write one poem per day by applying constrained writing techniques sourced from the Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle — or “workshop of potential literature”) group to text sourced from their daily local newspaper. This is the eighth of thirty prompts in the Oulipost project.
The found poem below is in response to this prompt:
OULIPOST #8: BEAUTIFUL INLAW (BEAU PRESENT)
Select a name from one of your newspaper articles, famous or not. Compose a poem using only words that can be made from the letters in that person’s name. For example, if you selected “John Travolta,” you may only use words that can be made from the letters A, J, H, L, N, O, R, T and V.
otorious Pistorius
is sori.
tis is Pistorius' stori:
Pistorius (?)ost it,
usis pisto(?) to stop it,
ut toi(?)it.
is Pistorius sirious?!
REFERENCES
AFP. "Pistorius apologises to family of girlfriend." The Daily Nation. 8 Apr. 2014: pg 29
This is a such a laugh!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you enjoyed it miskmask :-) Just goes to show that the line between tragedy and comedy is very thin indeed :-)
DeleteI highly recommend miskmask's Pistorius-inspired oulipoem :-) http://miskmask.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/day-8-scripts-of-stoic-acts/
ReplyDelete