While we’re here, I might as well show you how I’d try to make the exercise into something more songlike. I can relax all the rules we just followed for now, and hopefully something that makes more sense will emerge. For this poem/lyric I can use whatever I want from the first-draft poem, but I’m not obligated to use every word from the original list. I’m not going to even hold myself to the nouns being nouns and the verbs being verbs. the drum is waiting by the windowsill where the sunlight writes its will on the rug my guitar is healed by the amp plug charging the wall and that’s not all I’m
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