Random Words Epigraph

Step One: Randomly choose 15 entries from your dictionary. Just flip through the pages, close your eyes, and put your finger down on the page. Copy down the word that is closest to your finger. If your finger lands on a word that you don't know, you can choose the word just above or just below it. For the purposes of this assignment, count paired words as a single entry (for instance, "melting pot" is listed as a single entry).

Step Two: Shape your list of dictionary entries into a poem, using at least ten of the entries (you can, of course, use them all if you want). You can add articles, helping and to be verbs, coordinating conjunctions, and prepositions.

Charlene Drake

Chestnut Haute couture Insolent Ruminate Vagrant Lift Orchestra Philosopher Cushion Klutz Rapture Sodden Overtake Tap Myriad

“Claire”   The philosopher sits on her worn green cushion before the window She listens to the orchestra of water overtake the dry earth The insolent droplets tap at the pane She gazes with equal rapture from her toes to the sodden landscape She is solving the myriad mysteries of the universe I lift her warm weight and put her to bed.

E Paul Yager

Coxswain Latte lambda glaze Mole lodging Horny badly dispose abomination prevaricating Phosgene urinary officiate Snap Pea

Pols They greet the Crowds with Coxswain’s call, Move to Latte at a Starbucks Mall, They’d have us believe they are the alpha and the omega . lambda maybe! Have we lost out minds, glazed over like our vision? Mental Moles are we? Images, lodging in our minds: Horny old men behaving badly; Unable to dispose of rumors and gossip, An abomination, prevaricating, spreading emotional Phosgene. The only tract the one truly can follow: the urinary one. Choices, bush or kerry or pick again. In Reality,  I can only hope to officiate at the opening of a new party, go Jesse. On to a scene, Dan Rather, on death’s door, calling for his skate board, “Snap Pea”

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