Anthony Richardson writes stories that are funny

September 29, 2008

Week Four

Filed under: Uncategorized — mentalnoise @ 9:20 am

I had this idea about Helicopters and Where’s Wally but when I wrote it the thing only came to 60 words. So I indented it a bit and made each line of equal length and it turned into a poem. That’s basically what Poetry is. The Poem is called ‘This is only a Poem Because it’s Short and Each Line Begins with a Capital Letter.’

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  1. 60 words. Hmmm. I say cut it by a 1/3 and leave out all the pronouns, the connecting words – and, the, or, because – basically so that it’s just a stream of half-connected ideas.
    get rid of the capital letters. translate it into french using altavista babelfish. translate it into german. translate it back into Ingerlish.

    Now, my friend, you have a poem. leave to cool on a wire tray for 20 minutes and publish.

    I thank you

    Comment by Mark Sullivan — November 14, 2008 @ 11:24 am | Reply


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