headline poetry experiment

Tuesday, May 2, 2006
The New York Times

Drop take rejects boycott challenge prices clash in nationalizes brings gatekeepers killed the personal new.

[Ok, maybe add punctuation? Line breaks.]

Drop,
Take rejects.
Boycott,
Challenge prices,
Clash in nationalizes,
Brings gatekeepers killed
The personal new.

[I guess i have to somehow make it mine. Not sure what to do with it now…
It was the second word from every headline on the front page of the Times, taken in strict order beginning at the top left, and moving down and to the right.
]

Bad poem from class yesterday…

Paramaters: Belly, and a yellow piece of paper->Banana (later changed to squash)

A flat belly,
an empty stomach
Dreams full of flatness
tight, sexy clothing. But,
A life without ice cream?
Not worth living!
Who wants to live
on tofu and squash
for the sake of a
flat belly.