[New-Poetry] Re: "Mad libs"

TheOldMole tad at opus40.org
Tue Oct 3 15:31:25 EDT 2006


I think this may have been an exercise Jeff Newberry posted? I posted a 
similar one, but this one isn't mine.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Cervantes" <cervantes.james at gmail.com>
To: "new-poetry" <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:54 PM
Subject: [New-Poetry] Re: "Mad libs"


>I can't seem to find the thread relating to this and thus missed the
> attribution:
>
> December. An arctic wind, new
> and ________ . ________ and polar bears
> sink into their winter ________.
> Just then,
> ________ , in the folds of ________ snow,
> the ________ of spring get set.
>
> June. In a ________ ceremony
> filled with ________,
> the man is ________ at ________.
> Just then
> it is midnight in the ________ ________. The ________
> reports for duty: he recognizes the ________.
>
> December. Suddenly the ________
> turns over , I ________ in a squalid
> ________, and watch, as expected,
> just then
> all my stolen ________  drift by
> like ________  ________ .
>
> Who dunnit?
>
> -- Jim
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