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JOINT WORDS
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14 loose cards - each with a 2 word poem on them.
cards in envelope, 14 pages
Published
1979
by Luna Bisonte Prods
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Fourteen poems, each two words in length. Can these two-word poems be called "poems"? Why not?
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SLOW FLOOR
WORD KAK
YET HAND
SAME RATION
KAAK STUNT
WHITE PULP
LOCK QUART
THAT UNIT
BOOM BOOM
SEND LINKS
STIFF EACH
ACTUALLY CLEAVES
SHEET NESS
METER AXES
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Hhmm.. As is perhaps too often the case (?), I like this more for its formal properties than for any other reason. Word combinations like: "SAME RATION", "STIFF EACH", "ACTUALLY CLEAVES", etc, 2 words per small card - perhaps each writer contributed one word per card, perhaps knowing what the other had written, perhaps independently. Perhaps these are poetry Rorschach blots, little catalysts to 'make-yr-own-poem'. Whatever the case, this is unique.
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