tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956385132597903092024-03-19T16:16:21.542-04:00A Decadent Discourse....This blog is a commentary on my life. the world and everything in between.N.I.C.O.L.E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10501378206238501901noreply@blogger.comBlogger220125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-66813877460309661282016-01-01T19:16:00.002-05:002016-01-01T19:16:59.069-05:00Same ole' resolution: To blog more....I think I've said that for the past 5 years. Like most resolutions, I did not stick with it.<br />
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Will this year be different? Who knows....<br />
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I've been struck with the inclination to write as of late. It's left me a bit astounded. I haven't wanted to write in a very long time. I hope to continue acting on the inclination.<br />
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What did I do a lot of this year? <b>Bake</b>. Yes, I baked A LOT. Big items, small items, chocolate, pudding, pies, cakes, cupcakes, candy..you name it...I tried it..okay..maybe not but I did a lot.<br />
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Here are a few of my favorites:<br />
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Let's start with the candy...chocolate covered Oreos, molded chocolates and chocolate covered pretzels. 8 hours later and not even water...I was a mess but my chocolates weren't.<br />
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I just realized that the next 2 recipes come from <a href="http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sally's Baking Addiction</a>. HA!<br />
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Next, Peppermint Mocha Cookies dipped in white chocolate. Divine. I made many holiday cookies but these were my favorite.<br />
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Donuts. Yes, I made donuts. You bake them and they tastes like giant sugar coated muffins. So delicious.<br />
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Chocolate covered banana muffins. Yes, chocolate covered banana muffins. The glaze is silky and shiny and hardens like candy. Make them.<br />
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Red Velvet Crackle Cookies. Yes, I used the recipe on the cake mix. No, I am not ashamed. In fact, I changed the recipe and they came out even better than anticipated.<br />
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Don't worry, I'll post more images and such. I already baked something in 2016. I'm off to a good start.Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-51225036053650190422015-10-31T10:11:00.000-04:002015-10-31T10:12:53.171-04:00The Food Blogger: A dime a dozen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last evening I had the pleasure of meeting Sally from <a href="http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/" target="_blank">Sally's Baking Addiction. </a> As I listened to her story I realized her story is very much atypical. The rise of her blogging fame was relatively short—a whole year or so. Most bloggers work for years and years before (or if ever) they can become a full-time blogger. Needless to say, Sally worked hard and she's very fortunate - she's talented and has a knack for writing cute and clear blog posts. Ahh..yes..she's almost smart...and got in on <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> in the beginning..and we all know how the gals love to pin stuff.<br />
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The room was filled with wannabe food bloggers, asking questions about baking and blogging. I sat there....probably the oldest fan in the room and wondered...how unique am I if all of these "women" want to do the same thing? The thing is...I'm not..we aren't...in a way... Yes, we all possess our own thoughts but we are all very similar. We have almost the same dreams. How can we make our blogs and ourselves stand out? <b>My answer: Be ourselves.</b> That's my plan. It may not be their plan but it's mine. I can't try to be something I am not and I will continue to post about the foods I like rather than the foods I think my audience will like. Granted....it's not much of an audience.<br />
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Among all of the smart and fun things Sally spoke about, I took away an interesting statement. She said, "I started treating my blog as a business." That struck me. I said to myself, "Hmmm...okay...I understand but do I want to do that." The answer is no, not at this time but maybe one day after some cooking classes and soul searching.<br />
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For now, I will blog and bake as a hobby. Who knows? Next week I may just start taking it seriously. I will stick to my day job and moonlight as a baker. I even bought a chef's hat...I feel official.<br />
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I need to mention that Sally was a flipping delight! She was so warm, welcoming, enigmatic, and treated her fans as if they were already friends. That gal has charisma and it explains why she's so successful.<br />
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<b>Keep blogging ladies...your voices matter. </b><br />
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<br />Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-18299640647299938302015-05-23T09:42:00.001-04:002015-05-23T09:42:26.129-04:00F-: My grade as a bloggerWow. I am terrible blogger. I used to diligently write posts several times a week in my heyday. Now...months slip by and I barely type a word.<br />
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I've been baking, job seeking, house seeking, recovering, vacation researching, balleting, running...ya know..livin' the dream...<br />
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Here are a few things I've made over the months. I haven't really made anything extravagant...my food allergies have taken a toll on my will to bake and cook. I bake muffins for myself because I can control the ingredients.<br />
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There is not excuse for this. It's chocolate cake...some sort of delightful oreo interior and strawberries. It was heaven.</div>
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Carrot cake muffins...mmmmmm...healthy with coconut oil and whole wheat flour<br />
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Pie for Pi Day. Banana Cream....</div>
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I hope things will improve on all fronts. It hasn't been an easy or joyful year by any means. Don't get me wrong, it's not horrific and it could be much, much worse. Believe me, I know I am fortunate on many fronts.<br />
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It's just hard to stay positive when you work so hard to do things and for others those things just come so easy or fall in to their laps or happen faster. Your road is never the straight and narrow. It's always winding, bumpy, filled with potholes and sometimes just stops for no apparent reason. This isn't a pity party and I am not blaming anyone.<br />
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Anyway, we move onwards...<br />
<br />Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-2340768994636550772015-03-28T09:57:00.000-04:002015-03-28T09:57:07.755-04:00No PoMoScoAs life always does, it's thrown me a curveball. I had been planning on participating in a National Poetry Month project via the Found Poetry Review but...sadly..I can't. I don't have the time, mental willingness or "umph" to do so.<br />
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I feel very defeated about the whole thing. I am trying to make positive changes in my life and do "things" but I haven't been able to do much. 2015...throw me a bone.<br />
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<br />Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-5935783340154429322015-03-06T20:47:00.002-05:002015-03-06T20:48:44.869-05:00National Poetry Month 2015Yes, yes, yes....I know..I haven't written in 2 months...but...that will change very soon. I am participating in National Poetry Month again via the<a href="http://www.foundpoetryreview.com/" target="_blank"> Found Poetry Review</a>. This year it's a Boy Scouts' theme. It should be fun but I am a little nervous. I am still searching for a house so mixing all of that into writing for a whole month should be entertaining to say the least.<br />
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I hope you will all join me on this journey. I hope for some quality poetry but you never know.</div>
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See you in April!! </div>
Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-64703024961928282082015-01-01T19:50:00.000-05:002015-01-01T19:50:31.016-05:002014: The year that was not.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2014 brought a lot of love and a lot of sorrow. The first obviously preceded the last. I am happy to turn the page to 2015....as we are almost 20 hours into the new year and I've spent at least 5 of them watching Pride and Prejudice. Oh if Mr. Darcy was real...<div>
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Anyway, at 33 years of age, I am not quite at the station in life that I desire. This year I went from believing I was going to spend the rest of my life with someone to realizing that was not going to happen and I was once again alone. It's a lonely life. The loneliness is tangible and not many people understand how difficult consistently being alone can be. I have friends but none are close by. I participate in a extracurricular activities and solo activities to keep myself "busy" but I am alone most of the time.</div>
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I've made changes to live a happier, healthier and more positive life. I have a more positive outlook than I did before but I am not completely healed. I wonder when I will feel whole again. </div>
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Along with an earth shattering break-up, I also experienced a freak illness. Granted it did not require hospitalization but I did go through a lot of tests and doctor visits. It came to light that I have food allergies. They are random and inhibit my consumption of some of my favorite foods. I am still getting the hang of modifying my eating habits but like everything else, I am working on it. I can't say it's been easy. I feel better, thank goodness. </div>
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With all the ups and the many downs of 2014, I want 2015 to be filled with light, happiness, adventures and most of all love and healing. </div>
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<li>I will own a dog. It will be the cutest, sweetest, bestest pup in all the land.</li>
<li>I will own a home. It will be the cutest, prettiest home in all the land. </li>
<li>I will write more. I actually wrote last year...remember..I wrote cool <a href="http://decadentdiscourse.blogspot.com/2014/05/oulipost-exit-interview.html" target="_blank">poems</a>. :)</li>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-74904373500776053302014-11-04T22:46:00.001-05:002014-11-04T22:46:36.123-05:00I wish....I wish there was a button you could push that would make you fall out of love with someone. But, you could only push that button when the relationship was over and you hurt so bad you can barely breath. There isn't such button....but I want one with all my heart or what's left of my heart...anyway. <div><br></div><div>I want this pain to vanish. I want to feel whole again. I want to feel like myself again. Sometimes I feel like I am drowning...in my own feelings. I know how to swim but I could sure use a life preserver.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>N.I.C.O.L.E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10501378206238501901noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-86618363458201257392014-10-12T20:30:00.000-04:002014-10-12T20:31:08.243-04:00Yes, I've been baking.I need to get better at this whole blogging thing. Back when I first started blogging...like circa 2001, I wrote blogs religiously and then I'd take a hiatus and the write like crazy. Now, I just plain ole forget. The positive: I've been baking.. a lot!<br />
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<li>Chocolate frosted banana brownies</li>
<li>Apple Sauce</li>
<li>Harvest Apple Cupcakes with cinnamon cream cheese frosting</li>
<li>Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting (with a Reese's peanut butter cup inside)</li>
<li>Apple Turnovers</li>
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Yeah, that's a lot of baked goods. I've also made some actual food but that's not as fun to talk about. </div>
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I'll post pictures soon along with some of the recipes. I have to say I think I really screwed up with the chocolate frosted banana brownies but they were delightful! I made the frosting on the fly with powdered sugar and baking chocolate, butter and some half and half. It was great. I was very proud of myself.<br />
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-66458176628756689422014-08-13T20:24:00.000-04:002014-08-13T20:24:04.002-04:00Upside-Down Cake and Square Cookies. The world has gone mad!Betty Crocker, you are a crazy, crazy woman. I used one of your iconic recipe cards (<a href="http://www.aperfectworld.org/betty_crocker.html" target="_blank">seen here</a>) to make Pineapple Upside-Down Cake and it was a trip. People loved it. I did not. It was easy to make but just too sweet. I made a pretty design with fruit and followed the very simple instructions. <div>
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About 2 weeks ago, I decided to go nuts and make chocolate muffins. I was given <a href="http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/" target="_blank">Sally's Baking Addiction </a>book for my birthday. I love the book and all the recipes. I made Sally's chocolate muffins and holy beans, I never thought I'd like chocolate muffins and I love them! Search her site for the recipe or buy her great book. It's worth it for the pictures.</div>
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Now, I needed cookies...I didn't want to bust out my mixture and I wanted something different. I remembered reading about these strawberry cake mix chocolate chip cookies. I googled and found this very simple <a href="http://kirbiecravings.com/2013/02/strawberry-chocolate-chip-cookies.html" target="_blank">recipe</a>. It needed more moisture so I added some milk..about say...1/4 of a cup.</div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-71188461231591724152014-08-07T21:23:00.000-04:002014-08-07T21:23:38.430-04:00Post...lifeAs many of you noticed from my last entry....I've been through a breakup. I am sad, some would say devastated. I wish it wasn't so but it is. I need to move on and put a positive spin on it. A relationship happened and I can smile about that. As A. A. Milne says: How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. That's how I feel about it. I wasn't all good but I am focusing on the good to get me through.<br />
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To help me get my mind and soul get into a better space, I am finally going to turn my blog into something!!!!! Yes, friends...A Decadent Discourse will now be a food blog. I am going to bake stuff and critique it and maybe review restaurant dishes.<br />
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Hello..kids..A Decadent Discourse is going to now be an even better and clever(er) pun.<br />
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<br />Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-72649310138156395142014-07-18T21:15:00.001-04:002014-07-18T21:15:43.731-04:00What happens when you fall...I loved/love him so much it hurts, but he doesn't love me. So now, I sit here and ponder all my missteps and mistakes and it hurts even more. Yes, I didn't trust him but I was trying. I was learning. I don't really trust anyone. I wanted to so much to trust him. I still do. My mistrust pushed him away. He fell out of love. I guess. Yet, I was the one to say...I'm done. I could see it. I could feel it. <div><br></div><div>So, now I sit here and hope. I have no feelings left only the thoughts to know I love him. I hope my love can help and fix this. I can't think of all the what if's and could have's. I know my heart... I know I screwed up like I screw up everything. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm scared for tomorrow and for all the days after that. </div><div><br></div><div>The feelings flood in and I get lost. I am lost.</div><div><br></div><div>He made me so happy. I want to be happy again. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm not done. </div><div><br></div><div>I love him. </div>N.I.C.O.L.E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10501378206238501901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-25441984695881795352014-05-03T11:22:00.001-04:002014-05-03T11:22:36.236-04:00OuliPost: Exit Interview<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<i>2.<a href="http://decadentdiscourse.blogspot.com/2014/04/oulipost-9-headlines-variation-of-jean.html" target="_blank"> Headlines</a></i><br />
<i>3. <a href="http://decadentdiscourse.blogspot.com/2014/04/oulipost-5-tautogram.html" target="_blank">Tautogram</a></i><br />
<i>4. <a href="http://decadentdiscourse.blogspot.com/2014/04/oulipost-13-epithalamium.html" target="_blank">EPITHALAMIUM</a></i></div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-90557643139846170192014-04-30T19:00:00.002-04:002014-04-30T19:00:40.453-04:00OULIPOST #30: PATCHWORK QUILT--The Grand Finale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><b>The prompt:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Conclude the project by writing a poem that incorporates words and lines from all of your past 29 poems.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">I pulled full lines, and then just some words from each poem and I worked backwards. The first word is from April 29th and last word is from April 1st. Sometimes, I pluralized a word..sometimes I didn't. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">So long Oulipost, it's been real...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><b>The result:</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b>Quilt</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Chief clumsily lingers</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Vaporized by </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Elements, </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">read like a mystery novel</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Revenge</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Another postcard</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">For friends</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Don’t be afraid</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Blessing has the burden</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Until it’s all a happy memory</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Lived it.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Around-the-clock</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Capsules appear</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">We run</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Pain</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">A lack of heart</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">We must be strong</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Half fatal</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Critics swiftly confirm</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Chief,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Earns their praise</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">While urban disunion rises</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">There was a problem</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Radicals faced with a particular group</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">People are still angry</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The name of this procedure is taken from the soft drink marketed as “the champagne of ginger ales.” (Or in my case...Miller High Life..the champagne of beers.) The drink may have bubbles, but it isn’t champagne. In the words of Paul Fournel, who coined the term, a Canada Dry text “has the taste and color of a restriction but does not follow a restriction.” (A musical example is Andrew Bird’s “</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqYTTW4hKk&feature=kp" style="color: black; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" target="_blank" title="fake palindromes">Fake Palindromes</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">.”) Be creative, and write a poem sourced from your newspaper that sounds like it’s been Oulipo-ed, but hasn’t.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b>The process:</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Well, since I didn't have any direction, I just took one. I wanted to use some rhetorical tropes. I was lame and just used alliteration but I may have spelled something with the title and the letters at the beginning of each line. Can you guess what it is?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b>The result:</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Oh….</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Child chief calls</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Replace recently received </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">An April agency allowed assaults</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Potentially playing pledges</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">It’s impossibly improving</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">To the terms toll</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Stepping state safety short</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Other ones old or only open</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Very vocal violations</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Elections encourage everybody</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Rising reporters record Republicans </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Source:</span></span><br />
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The A section of <i>The Boston Globe. </i>29 April 2015. Print.<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span>Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-87525505385620491722014-04-28T18:34:00.001-04:002014-04-28T18:34:34.985-04:00OULIPOST #28: MELTING SNOWBALL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><b>The prompt:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A text in which each word has one letter less than the preceding one, and the last word only one letter. From your newspaper, select a starting word, and then continue adding words of decreasing length from the same source article or passage. Challenge yourself further by only using words in order as you encounter them in the text.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><b>The process:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">I wanted to get creative with this. I thought of real snowball and how it takes a bit for it to start to melt. So the title is 11 letters and then the next 2 lines are 10 and the next to are 9 and then it really starts to melt. I also tried to abide by the rules and with using the word in the order that I found them. I think I did a pretty good with that part.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Several other articles from the homepage of </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Boston Globe. </i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">28 April 2014. Web.</span>Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-3671612032987715202014-04-27T19:27:00.001-04:002014-04-27T19:27:10.898-04:00OULIPOST #27: IRRATIONAL SONNET<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Create a 14-line sonnet sourced from lines from your newspaper that is divided according to the first five digits of the irrational number pi – that is, into stanzas of 3, 1, 4, 1 and 5 lines. As with the preceding sonnet assignment (see April 14) you may interpret “sonnet” as formally or as loosely as you wish.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">I just started looking for iambic pentameter. I pulled pieces of lines and full lines themselves. It was quite difficult. The paper was full but since I've been baking all day...my mine is blank. I did change some tense and as with yesterdays poem, I wanted it to say something. Something that stands up. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Learning their lines by heart, they soar, they sear</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">They linger in the memory, he died</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">It’s a small group of sympathetic friends</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">The scene was telling, and fairly typical</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">It felt charged with impact, streaming with light</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Stop, look closely and you will see beauty</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">The interplay of cultures is the theme</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Tell the world what the government has done</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">But one rich sector might just prove elusive</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">It never stops, this sort of unceasing </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">On the hunt for the next generation</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Villains who are victims of circumstance</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Bold, creative acts of innovation</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Bigger, stronger people will come, after</span></span><br />
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Several articles from <i>The Boston Globe & The Globe Magazine. </i>27 April 2014. Sections A-N. Print.</div>
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<b>The prompt:</b></div>
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The outlaw in question is the name of the person (or subject) to whom the poem is addressed. Each line of the poem includes all the letters of the alphabet except for the letter appearing in the dedicated name at the position corresponding to that of the line: when writing a poem to Eva, the first line will contain all letters except E, the second all letters except V, and the third all letters except A.</div>
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Choose someone mentioned in your newspaper to whom to address your poem. Compose a beautiful outlaw poem following the procedure outlined above and using words sourced from your newspaper text.</div>
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<b>The process:</b></div>
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As usual, I picked a short name and a name of a man who was a champion of democracy in Myanmar. I found his name in the Obituaries. I wanted to make this a quality poem for obvious reasons. I enjoyed the process because searching and finding cool words was intellectually stimulating. Plus, I was in a Starbucks for part of the writing process and now I smell like coffee and cookies. It's sexy. </div>
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This took me a long time. I found it difficult to focus on this rainy day. Plus, I was hungry. I changed tenses and played with words a bit but I swear I used just about every article in today's paper. </div>
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<b>The result:</b></div>
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<b>Win Tin</b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Democracy champion saving subjects from stabilizing pay and questionably picky taxes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Handles sharks, runs a bar, catches grenades, puzzles even more by exes of newly jammed quotes</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Quick-fixes vary with him, majority rules, but widely sized gaps appear</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Diversify and back common people; a jab; a warning—faxed—quickly—vaporized, how?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Abuses cause vast, flash attacks when more neglected people unjustly freeze next quarter</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Quite a bit of love goes through him, you see, with the evil & hazards here: </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Pride</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Truth speaks justice...</span></span></div>
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Several articles from <i>The Boston Globe. </i>26 April 2014. Sections A-G.Print.</div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-16301341112126819472014-04-25T13:09:00.001-04:002014-04-25T20:55:39.763-04:00Oulipost #25: Larding<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>OuliPost #25</b><br /><br /><b>The prompt:</b>Aka “line stretching.” From your newspaper text, pick two sentences. Add a new sentence between the first two; then two sentences in the new intervals that have become available; and continue to add sentences until the passage has attained the length desired. The supplementary sentences must either enrich the existing narrative or create a new narrative continuity.<br /><br /><b>The process:</b><br />I split sentences and tried to follow the rules. I almost mad-libbed it again but I start piecing things together. An article about ducks cracked me up so I had to put in 5 ducks killed. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now, it's later. I just started finding sentences and half of sentences and putting them together. i think I used almost 10 articles. I think it came out..okay..<br /><b><br />The result:</b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Photography, a technological marvel, was long considered an artistic stepchild. <br />Elements read like a mystery novel. <br />The federal government started a program in 1994, for scores of aspiring artists to debut their work.<br />What followed is a complicated saga that has produced more questions than answers.<br /> Illegal guns seized, opiate addicts and five ducks killed. <br />A less happy experience and the government has had second thoughts about the decision.<br /> “Arty” was not a term.<br /><br />What often does not come up is the work.<br />Neighborhood groups encouraged to get involved. The way they join them is to copy them.<br />Like life, it’s all a big balancing act.<br />Today we think of the medium, as having been an art form from the beginning.<br /><br /><b>Source:</b><br />Several articles from </span><i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Boston Globe. 25 April 2014. Section A-G. Print. </span></i></div>
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N.I.C.O.L.E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10501378206238501901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-88484080764773755732014-04-24T18:42:00.002-04:002014-04-24T18:42:52.405-04:00OULIPOST #24: HOMOSYNTAXISM<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Homosyntaxism is a method of translation that preserves only the syntactic order of the original words. To give a rudimentary example, if N=noun, V=verb and A=adjective, the outline NVA could yield solutions such as “The day turned cold,” “Violets are blue,” “An Oulipian! Be wary!”)</div>
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<strong>Option 1:</strong> Choose a sentence from your newspaper source text and write as many homosyntaxisms as possible based on that same variation.</div>
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<strong>Option 2:</strong> Complete a homosyntaxism of an entire paragraph or article found in your text.</div>
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<b>The process:</b></div>
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Guess which one I chose?? You got it, option 1. I didn't source the words from the text. I made them my own...I think that might be cheating. I would like to thank..<a href="http://margoroby.com/2014/04/24/oulipoem-24-april-24-homosyntaxism/" target="_blank">.Margo Roby</a> for this Mad Lib idea. </div>
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I was stumped on how to go about this so I had to take some inspiration. I am making this my own and keeping some adverbs. I may have cheated on some "adverbs" as well. </div>
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The sentence really spoke to me so that's why I chose it. Then as I started, I hated it. I then started to think...let's work off of this. Let's get 2 common words together and make some statements. It's not perfect and it's not poignant. I used some different pronouns and I let it fly. </div>
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Here is the sentence/inspiration:</div>
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<b>Talks and walks can give us justly....</b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Determination and strength can move him exactly here. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Propaganda and extremists can fuel him crazily always.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Smee, Sebastian. "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 15px;">In portrait of late artist Jon Imber, life and love endure." <i>The Boston Globe. </i>24 April 2014. Arts Section. Web. </span></div>
Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-71782005416149678602014-04-23T19:07:00.004-04:002014-04-23T19:07:29.092-04:00OULIPOST #23: INVENTORY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Inventory is a method of analysis and classification that consists of isolating and listing the vocabulary of a pre-existing work according to parts of speech. Choose a newspaper article or passage from a newspaper article and “inventory” the nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, articles, etc. Bonus points for creative presentation of your final lists.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">I made a chart. Well, first I chose the first article I saw and it didn't involve the Marathon. Woo!! Then I made the chart. I decided to leave the proper nouns alone. Blech! I don't like them. Only 1 adverb...<b>YET</b>. Honestly, these prompts make me second guess myself on my language knowledge. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">So I think I am going to write some nonsense. I first thought of using the words going across and then I thought..nah...here's my chance to just mess this up. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">I tried and tried and tried some more. I finally came up with using articles and conjunctions and nouns and adjectives. It came to be a bit of a list. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Sweeping and sailing and seaside </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">The town</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">The park</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">A race</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">A rubber</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">On waterfront</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">On granite</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">On trend</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Another tourist</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Another postcard</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Another weekday</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Into basement</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Into museum</span></span><br />
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-73514089365082289022014-04-22T18:37:00.000-04:002014-04-22T18:37:03.901-04:00OULIPOST #22: ANTONYMY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In Oulipian usage, antonymy means the replacement of a designated element by its opposite. Each word is replaced by its opposite, when one exists (black/white) or by an alternative suggesting antonymy (a/the, and/or, glass/wood).</div>
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<em>Original:</em> To be or not to be, that is the question.<br />
<em>Antonymy:</em> To not be and to be: this was an answer.</div>
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I swear today will be the last day of Marathon inspired poems. Yesterday, I went to the Marathon. yay!!! I was at Mile #19. What a great day!</div>
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This was a bit tough. I chose a short passage and I kept thinking to myself..errr..what's the opposite of this. I took some creative license when it came to numbers and such. I hope I did the prompt justice. I even used part of the title of the article as my title.</div>
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<b>The result:</b></div>
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<i><b>The passage:</b></i></div>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><i>They clanged cowbells for hours, extended hands for high-fives, and waved posters for friends while hooting for strangers. They packed 8 deep in Ashland, 12 deep Natick, and so tight in Back Bay it was impossible to count. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b>Jeers emptied the water</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">I silenced ear rings</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Or flipped off newspapers</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Nay, enemies </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">While crying</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">For friends</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">I unpacked 16 shallow out of</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">or so loose in Front Dessert</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">they were easy to abandon</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Moskowitz, Eric. "For 26 miles, the cheers filled the air." <i>The Boston Globe.</i> 22 Apr 2014. A1-A12. Print.</span></span><br />
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-49037549780982058282014-04-21T14:52:00.001-04:002014-04-21T14:52:39.300-04:00OULIPOST #21: CONFABULATION<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Craft a conversation poem using “he said/she said” quotes that you find in newspaper articles.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">I am not entirely sure what a "he said, she said" poem is, so I took some creative license. I've clipped quotes to make the poem more of a narrative. I've even used some names and modifiers of he said and she said. I also repeated some quotes to round out the poem.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“Jack,” Betty yelled.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“Don’t be afraid..…”</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“I’m suggesting you need to start thinking about a plan B,” John said.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“I have a better idea,” he said.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“We’ve gone through a major transformation,” she said.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“I wish I could do that,” he said.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“The feeling is just pride,” Betty said with a snarl.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“I was hurt,” John said.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“There’s more people involved in this,” she said.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“That was really a surprise,” he said. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“I kill a lot in Providence,” she said.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“It was good to get those first 2 early,” he said.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“I just think you’ve got to decided what you want to do,” she said.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“It was part of the job,” he said.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“This might not be a bad thing,” she said with hesitation.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“But everyone is different,” he said with a sigh.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"> “I kill a lot in Providence,” he said.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“I kill a lot in Providence.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“Don’t be afraid…”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Over 10 articles from <i>The Boston Globe, Print. 21 Apr 2014 Sections A-G. </i></span></span><br />
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<b>The prompt:</b><br />
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Select a newspaper article or passage from a newspaper article as your source text. Switch the first noun with the second noun, the third noun with the fourth noun, and so on until you’ve reached the end of your text.<br />
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I love Sunday's because there is an ever present and somewhat large Arts section. The article I chose details an "up-and-coming" female rap star. I've been reading and seeing her videos about her for over a year so I am not sure how ground breaking and on the edge this article really is. Anyway, I couldn't resist another poem that did not contain sophisticated subject matter. I just had to use it. <br />
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Also, her video mimics the movie "Clueless". That's way harsh.<br />
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The poem isn't great. I am not sure it makes sense but I did take some poetic license at the end and with some tenses. <br />
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<b>Iggy Rap</b><br />
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Blessing has the burden<br />
And the rapper<br />
Of being a rising profile<br />
With an odd<br />
At way<br />
With the artists<br />
Most genres<br />
Come up in the caricature<br />
If you wanted a rap star<br />
Of the least likely, azaleas<br />
Blueprint could be your female<br />
Blond<br />
Australian.<br />
Model<br />
Looks like one (and is Southern).<br />
Raps with a murder.<br />
Rendering bizness…biznassss....<br />
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Reed, James. "Is hip-hop ready for Iggy Azalea?." <i>The Boston Globe. </i> 20 Apr 2014. N1-N4. Print.<br />
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-83934578051211773112014-04-19T13:27:00.002-04:002014-04-19T13:27:27.324-04:00OULIPOST #19: SESTINA
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<b>The prompt:</b></div>
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This will be one of your most challenging Oulipost prompts! A sestina is a poetic form of six six-line stanzas. The end-words of the lines of each stanza repeat those of the first, but in a differing order that in each successive stanza follows the permutation: 615243. The entire sequence of end words is thus: 123456; 615243; 364125; 532614; 451362; 246531. All words and phrases must be sourced from your newspaper text.</div>
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<b>The process:</b></div>
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Such cute kitty. Anyway, I tried to follow the rules but....I didn't. I couldn't source all the words. I just sourced my end words. To be somewhat successful, I had to throw caution to the wind. I did source some words from the source text. So, that was sort of following the rules. <a href="http://oulipost.douglasjluman.com/oulipostools/" target="_blank">Doug Luman</a> is the man and I used his excel. I still am not entirely sure if created a proper sestina but I gave it a go. It's the longest poem I've ever composed, I think. </div>
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Also, the Excel document and myself screwed up at the end and I did not intend the poem to end the way it did but I like it. I changed a few tenses and pluralizations of words. </div>
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<b>The result: </b></div>
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<b>A harrowing, glossy, (happy) experience</b></div>
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Seeking sustenance proves harrowing</div>
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the pangs of hunger lingering</div>
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a bologna sandwich, not normal </div>
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food photographs glossy</div>
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Eating lunch with friends</div>
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A fond memory</div>
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You are a memory</div>
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I search for happiness, something less harrowing</div>
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A food for the soul, Could it be friends? </div>
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A walk to find what is lingering</div>
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Yogurt--- glossy</div>
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Is tidy the new normal?</div>
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I wonder what is really normal?</div>
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Is it something in our memory?</div>
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Is it new, exciting, shocking and glossy?</div>
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Do we shrink to a whisper, something less harrowing?</div>
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We are strong, but wounds still linger</div>
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We peer into ourselves, we search for friends.</div>
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Changing colors, changing friends</div>
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A chameleon, is that normal?</div>
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Suspects in this, a motive still linger</div>
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I cannot erase your memory,</div>
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into something less harrowing</div>
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Our photographs shiny and glossy</div>
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Feelings masked under layers of glossy</div>
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Paint, a face hidden to friends</div>
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sustenance still proves harrowing</div>
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I will never be normal </div>
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It's all just a memory</div>
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Balogna sandwich thoughts still linger</div>
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I grew to find, it's okay to linger</div>
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Cover your face with all things glossy</div>
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Until it's all just a happy memory</div>
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Hold tight to new and old friends</div>
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You will never be normal </div>
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Because if you are, you life is harrowing</div>
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I cried because it was all so harrowing</div>
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I dried my tears and I’ve stopped seeking normal</div>
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You are my friend</div>
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(and my normal...)</div>
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Source:</div>
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Rusell, Jenna. "For Watertown residents, normal will never be quite the same." <i>The Boston Globe. </i> 19 Apr 2014. A1-A6. Print. </div>
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Moskowitz,Eric. "Danny takes strength from ordeal with Tsarnaevs." <i>The Boston Globe. </i> 19 Apr 2014. A1-A6. Print. </div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295638513259790309.post-50151275547934190422014-04-18T17:26:00.000-04:002014-04-18T17:26:04.519-04:00OULIPOST #18: HOMOCONSONANTISM<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Choose a sentence or short passage from your newspaper to complete a homoconsonantism. In this form, the sequence of consonants in a source text is kept, while all its vowels are replaced. For example:</div>
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ORIGINAL: <em>To be or not to be: that is the question.</em><br />
CONSONANTS ONLY: <em>T b r n t t b t t s t h q s t n</em><br />
FINAL PRODUCT: <em>As burnt tibia: it heats the aqueous tone.</em><b><br /></b></div>
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I found this very telling yet endearing sentence and although it provided limited letters, I felt compelled to use. I like what it stood for. The article was a tribute to a fallen officer who worked in the Boston Police Department Gang Unit and passed away this week from what doctors "think" are complications from injuries he sustained during the Marathon Shoot Out last year. The article is touching. </div>
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My poem really doesn't not have anything to do with the articles subject matter and I think it came out cohesive, emphasis on I think.<br />
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A blue new rookie
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Not a hag
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An age on tab
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Tied, jail<br />
Avid oath
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Lived it.<br />
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You have to be a lion to work in the gang unit. But DJ loved it. He loved it.<br />
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Cullen, Kevin. "The lion and the lamb." <i>The Boston Globe. </i>18 Apr 2014. B1. Print.Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635882992428521314noreply@blogger.com0