couple's inventory, in order, unless (after Dear Abby)

couple’s inventory, in order, unless

 

pronouns, personal, ascending:

I, we, me, we,

you, you,

he, it, him, it,

he

 

nouns and substantives:

man, years, marriage, goal, dilemma, husband, track, time,

sex, times, year,

sex, times, life, couple,

sex, times, year, mind, business, days,

year

verbs:

have been, may be, ‘d had, married, is, is

keeps, have, has, informed, was,

do, think,

married, having, is, keeps, travels, is

gone

 

negations, descending:

not, not

 

adpositions:

to, for, of, in, that, only, that,

for, about, for, in, that, in, that,

for, about

 

conjunctions and junctions and miscellany:

a, but, this, a, a, and, and, a, a, what, also

 

numerals, no particular:

100, 30, 2013, 76, 30-plus, 76, 60, a

 

adjectives, ascending:

quite upset, sex, your, every, my, my, adequate, sex, normal, quite good, wonderful,

personal, perfect, our, normal

 

Source

Dear Abby. Couple’s Sex Life Is All About the Numbers. Houston Chronicle. 23 Apr. 2014. E5.

 

Note:

I didn’t have a lot of time, so was in the market for something short. As fate would have it, there was a disturbing, albeit relatively succinct question asked of Dear Abby today. The poem, as well as the question (and Abby’s unrecorded answer), is all about couples and relationships. Or rather, a particular approach to above.

 

Here is the prompt I was responding to:

 

Inventory is a method of analysis and classification that consists of isolating and listing the vocabulary of a pre-existing work according to parts of speech. Choose a newspaper article or passage from a newspaper article and “inventory” the nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, articles, etc. Bonus points for creative presentation of your final lists.