Today's Oulipost prompt is:
'In
a Fibonacci sequence, each term is the sum of the two terms
immediately preceding it; typically with 1 as the first term: 1, 1,
2, 3, 5,8, 13, 21, 34, 55 and so on.
Select
an article from your newspaper and create a poem using the words that
correspond with the numbers in the sequence. Your poem will take the
form of first word, first word, second word, third word, fifth word,
eighth word, thirteenth word, etc. You can continue until you’ve
run out of words in your article or until you’re happy with the
poem’s conclusion.'
How
I hated this. All that counting and all I got was some pronouns,
prepositions, adjectives, and linking words (what are they called in
English grammar?). First I wrote a piece of prose, hoping to drag a
poem out kicking and screaming. Nought. So then I peeped at other
Ouliposter's entries to see how they'd dealt with the challenge, and
saw that they'd been far less ambitious. So here's my effort,
although hardly a poem.
I
used an article in yesterday's (3 April 14) Guardian newspaper by
Suzanne Moore, 'Sold Subject to Contract'
FOR
SALE & RENT
It
was small via cramped.
Because
it was smaller, rentable
with
the small pension.
Janet
Daniel
April
4 2014.
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