one name new, a prisoners snowball

one name new

 

I-

me!-

was

near

sense:

narrow

answers,

services.

americans

recover

issues,

cause

more

(six)

as

a-

 

 

Source

Fraser, Jayme. City’s Hoarding Proposal 8 Years Late for One Man. Houston Chronicle. 15 Apr. 2014. B1, B4

 

Note:

The prisoner’s constraint is surprisingly- constraining, especially because I limited myself to a single newspaper article as a source. It became clear that I wasn’t going to have a ton of words to work with. As is becoming a recurrent theme, not much time either. Sometimes the solution to being constrained is to add another constraint. I decided to integrate a snowball type scenario, up and then down again.

 

Here is the prompt I was responding to:

 

Imagine a prisoner whose supply of paper is restricted. To put it to fullest use, he will maximize his space by avoiding any letter extending above or below the line (b, d,f,g,h,j,k,l,p,q,t and y) and use only a,c,e,m,n,o,r,s,u,v,w,x and z. Compose a poem using only words that can be made from these letters AND which you source from your newspaper text.