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Oulipost #22 Antonymy

Not the Stuff of Headlines Remember about solid prisons, adults who can speak. Here we agree to hate children who harm. We have 35 000 prisoners, everyone remembers common order. Unquiet, you can be careless. “Who’s indifferent to that truth? One child with one parent, that’s indefinite. That’s less loss.” We are always endangered. The […]

Oulipost #21 Confabulation

We Are Having A Nervous Wreck Here, And This Is Something To Commemorate In light of a recent video posted to YouTube, (insert his name here) would like to apologize for the totally unacceptable mishandling of your baggage. (insert his name here)’s communication at a personal level is catastrophic, it’s always been difficult to get […]

Oulipost #20 Lescurean Permutation

A Champion What do you do when your most strongly held conflict comes into belief with your deepest free-speech? Defending the hatemonger, rights of denier, and Canada’s Holocaust epitomized. Civil rights career confronted this very hate speech. His community roots were famous, a champion of destructive force. Schisms the activist’s trade; test of the sympathizer. […]

Oulipost #19 Sestina

Confidence Code Let’s hope they never find our truth. Dying to say “you could, you could, you fool.” We are a generation of smart dogs, futures far from our poison genes. Stage players who scheme when the risk of memory floods us with relief. Call all our thousand lost chances doubt, that small, subtle power. […]

Oulipost #14 Homoconsonantism

Pry We The Barbs Ash knew axe, act white. It does so, the pauses vary, richer crimes owe. The many good aims, oily holes, the oughts, the ail, the ill foes. Ply we the barbs, what pries now at fiery nests, tired crimes. Row war ships, tow awe yes, try not to do wrong. Fun […]

Oulipost Round-Up #2

It’s Day 18 of the Found Poetry Review’s Oulipost challenge for National Poetry Month. How is it more than halfway over already? It seems like just yesterday that I scrolled through the Oulipost Playbook and wondered: “Sweet fancy Moses, what have I signed myself up for?” Ouliposters keep knocking it out of the park. Some days […]

Oulipost #17: Haikuisation

1. Why do we need all these cops anyway? ‘We don’t’ is unthinkable. 2. That’s the way it is, being paid to manage bears. Pleasant place to live. 3. Police warn cutbacks pose mortal threat to safety. Ripple effects flow. 4. Housing is cheaper, crime rates low. Turf wars the stuff of Cochrane legend. 5. […]