[New-Poetry] Mad Libs

[Bill Morgan]

Perhaps I missed it, but I don't think anyone has yet identified the 
subscriber who first sent this exercise to the list.  It was "Parker, Alan 
Michael" <amparker at davidson.edu> on Sep 26.  (I kept it because I thought 
it was an interesting exercise to use in a workshop.)


'At 12:20 PM 9/26/2006, you wrote:
>Here's an exercise I use in class, familiar I'm sure to many of you as
>Mad Libs. If you'd like to tilt this whirl, or at the windmill, that
>would be nifty; I'll post the original in a day or two.
>
>Exercised, as ever, and interested in what poems do --
>AMP
>
>
>________    _________
>
>
>
>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 ________  ________ .
>
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