Saturday 12 April 2014

OULIPOST 11: UNIVOCALISM: OVER THE PILL


Today, I was on the train to Bristol, where I was attending the second level of a course on writing for well-being. I saw yesterday's newspaper on the seat, one I would n't normally read, The Daily Mail, Friday 11, 2014), and decided to give the following article a univocalist treatment with the vowel E.
 'RAF hero, 83, arrested and locked up for seven hours-for taking painkillers to his wife in a care home.'
If it wasn't for the antics of a hen party, dressed in pink cowboy hats, blowing whistles to see who could take their big knickers off first, I may have got something better.. .Yeah, as if.

'A univocalic text is one written with a single vowel. It is consequently a lipogra in all the other vowels. If he had been univocally minded, Hamlet might have exclaimed,
'Be? Never be?. Perplexed quest: seek the secret!'  All words used must be sourced from your newspaper.'

OVER THE PILL
 
He's been left there,
elderly.
Best cell; Seven.
Held.
Never been
there,
never been left.
Elderly,
spent.
 
 
 

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