I decided to do some found poems for “Very Short on Law and Order”. For those who are unfamiliar with found poems; I took words that were all found in the story and arranged them into poems... there are three here.
***********This is the fate of Reynolds and Red—they were hung until dead. (hey, that kind of rhymes!)
Bring two of them,
Whiskered and foolish,
The black will flourish,
When their careless hearts,
Do not hit the ground
Of the hangman’s tree.
Instead, the devil,
Will open his merciless jail
And, with a flourish,
Of rotgut and fire,
Escort his friends down,
To their whooping
Sundown.
They were called anything
But good.
************This one is about Beaver Tom and his whiskey dilemma…
Gone—all—all—all
Gone.
What if I die,
What if I…gone.
All gone, gone, gone.
Where am I,
Am I crazy,
I shiver and shake
For…for what,
I remember not.
I need to lay down.
Get me off this horse.
I need it bad.
Whiskey.
Strong, beautiful stuff…
Give me as much as I can stand.
No, more.
I am hot and stolen.
This is horrid
No way to pull through.
Whiskey. Gone—all—all—all
And now Beaver Tom.
I shook hands with the devil,
Strong and beautiful.
************Short, Short, Short poem…
Horse thieving.
In this business,
A man is made a monkey
In the jungle of trails, lies, and half-dead hearts
Rambling off where morning,
Yesterday, and black, black night
Are all one and the same.
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those seem fun, i didnt; remember the word 'monkey' in the text, good eye on that one I'm curious as to what method you decide to use to efficantly make those, and for some reason i find a line in beaver tom's comical, for some reason, maybe it was your choice of malipuating the words, the line being 'Get me off this horse'
~you've got good writing and good ideas, have a gooden!
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