puppy love, belle absente

Puppy love

 

You, Jacqui and him’d celebrate with KFC, and then go up (this was before zinc oxide, UVA)

and quick lay out and wish. Me: it was extra-agonizing to be July and five

in June, experiencing the frequent micronized TV, the block/body shows.

Zap, be extra smart, you’d say, your priceless heirloom just as quick to fade or giveaway,

to explain Ursula LeGuin and randomized just-worlds to one who’s five and frequent

and whose hospitalizations (infliximab) and even fingernails just say anti-quarterback

  

Source

Hoffman, Ken. Chick-Fil-A Pushes Ahead of KFC in Sales. Houston Chronicle. 26 Apr. 2014. E2

 

Roizen, Michael, & Oz, Mehmet. Accelerated Treatments for Crohn’s Show Results. Houston Chronicle. 26 Apr. 2014. E2

  

Note:

This was an instance where getting closer to the instructions actually helped. I started with the name “Spanky” who is the “Pethouse Pet of the Week” (I don’t fully understand why Spanky has an opinion about KFC, but that’s okay). Originally, I thought I was to build words from the entire newspaper, but that led to the paralysis that comes with too much freedom. I then understood that I was to get all my words from the article, but that was too little freedom, as Spanky was absolutely missing a few letters. So I compromised and took the article directly below, which as kind fate would have it was a medical column full of all those difficult to find letters. I didn’t start out with the narrative that emerged, but found that there were certain words that I really wanted to include and they set the narrative for me.

 

Here is the prompt I was responding to:

 

Beautiful Outlaw- Belle Absente: The outlaw in question is the name of the person (or subject) to whom the poem is addressed. Each line of the poem includes all the letters of the alphabet except for the letter appearing in the dedicated name at the position corresponding to that of the line: when writing a poem to Eva, the first line will contain all letters except E, the second all letters except V, and the third all letters except A.

Choose someone mentioned in your newspaper to whom to address your poem. Compose a beautiful outlaw poem following the procedure outlined above and using words sourced from your newspaper text.