Today’s exercise leans on some of our most prized possessions to help us draft. Take a look at your bookshelf (or the stack next to your bed…or next to your couch…you get the idea). Write down six to ten titles.
Make your choices carefully – titles that are evocative but not too specific work best. Try to incorporate the titles into a poem draft. If you need to change the form or tense of a word, feel free. As with the iPod exercise we did, you can challenge yourself to keep the phrases intact, or you can use the words individually, making the titles more of a word bank.
the titles
A
confederacy of dunces
the man who knew
too much
the ocean at the
end of the lane
the empty house
the man with two
left feet
sour grapes
gladiator
jukebox loser
what shall we do
now
beyond good and
evil
the old curiosity
shop
the wind in the
willows
through the
looking glass
the poem
Today
he sits and thinks
for your entertainment
the man who knew too much
seated in a window
of an old curiosity shop on
Madison ave.
He has been called a Wizard
or a Demon
but still he sits
beyond the trappings of good and evil
Once
he lived at the end of the lane
in an empty house
where he could see the ocean
surrounded by gladiators and
confidantes
a confederacy of fools and dunces
all gone now
as ethereal as the wind in the willows
and visions through a broken looking
glass
he bears no ill will
no sour grapes or tainted wine
he is just another man with
two left feet
a jukebox loser who has
forgotten how to dance
spending his days
pondering the question
“what will we do now?”
©
copyright 2014 David “Buddha 309”
Hargarten
©
copyright 2014 David “Buddha 309”
Hargarten
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