Oulipost #27: Irrational Sonnet
Create a 14-line sonnet sourced from lines from your newspaper that is
divided according to the first five digits of the irrational number pi –
that is, into stanzas of 3, 1, 4, 1 and 5 lines. As with the preceding
sonnet assignment (see April 14) you may interpret “sonnet” as formally
or as loosely as you wish.
Why is Kenya getting richer, richer?
Why CJ Sh300m?
while many of its people remain poor?
All eyes on Vatican as popes made saints.
And Bensouda probes Uhuru's billions,
tax evasion probe; KRA launches
budget cut to teach judges a lesson,
plot protest in giving allowances.
Sheikh loves. Loves. Loves. Loves to fight Al-Shabaab.
Promising life cut by gangsters' bullet
MCAs to grill over graft charges
Bensouda probes Uhuru's phone secrets
crooked dealers tamper Kenya mileage
while many of its people remain poor.
REFERENCES
Various newspaper headlines from The Sunday Nation 27 Apr. 2014
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