rational lapdance: a sonnet

rational dance: a sonnet

 

birthday has been charged with a felony

according to the documents she

refutes in a substantive way

 

she vaunteth not herself

 

you baby happy birthday

long and is kind charity

property but only temporarily

drugs though prison officials say

 

the rich are actually doing well

 

and the other students yelled

it’s difficult to hire and retain guards

mere mention of unequal

hoarding disorder like this fall

dance according to court records

  

Source

Lezon, Dale. Lap Dance Lands Teacher in Hot Seats. Houston Chronicle. 27 Apr. 2014. B3

 

Editorial. Feeling the Heat. Houston Chronicle. 27 Apr. 2014. B6

 

Bible Verse. 1 Corinthians 13:4. Houston Chronicle. 27 Apr. 2014. B6

 

Krugman, Paul. Economist Exposes U.S. Myth of Meritocracy. Houston Chronicle. 27 Apr. 2014. B7

 

Szymanski, Jeff, Frost, Randy, & Steketee, Anti-Hoarding Ordinance Stigmatizes Mentally Ill. Houston Chronicle. 27 Apr. 2014. B7

 

Note:

I limited myself to the B section of the newspaper, as that’s where all the fun is, and when I am on a limited time budget, it’s the best place to find stuff. I like how it came together. I did some minor jiggering to make it fit (tenses, genders, and the like).  

 

Here is the prompt I was responding to:

 

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.