Friday, April 4, 2014

OULIPOST #4: FIBONACCI (VARIATION)


The prompt:

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.

I chose a long article and I counted and counted and counted some more and I know I messed but I got up to word 610.

The result:

Politics

Only, Only
The state
different
The miles
A senate
Female
Democrat
Faced
State
Running
Often

Source: O'Sullivan. "For Scott Brown, a possible third test against a woman." The Boston Globe. 4 Apr 2014, A1-A8.

3 comments:

Gustare O&V said...

actually, yes! feminist fibonacci for the win ^___^

Gustare O&V said...

p.s. this is a not-properly logged in to work computer katy ^_^

Nicole said...

Thank you!! Your support is really helping!!