Alpha/Beta

A

Alpha apex
(add your own):
Jimmy Savile
Edward Heath
Ghislaine Maxwell
Dennis Hastert
Jeffrey Epstein
William Clinton
Harvey Weinstein
First letter of the law
Cornerstone and capstone
Novus Ordo Unum Eye . . .

Have a nice conspiracy theory.

PROMPT #23: write a poem about a letter of the alphabet.

Soured

Sociopath usurpers rise to the top
Floating above mere human resources:
Doubtful cream of a churned and churning crop
Soulless spawn of data-driven forces.

I long to see them finally confounded;
I’ll laugh as they leap from towering losses
Their assets seized, liquefied, impounded . . .
May God repay our sociopath bosses!

PROMPT #22: use an idiomatic phrase as the jumping-off point for your poem.

(The cream of the crop…)

Estrofas Duchampescas

Para recoger las horas perdidas
hay que coger las zorras perdidas . . .

In order to re-cog the wheels of loss
one must make hay in the azores of loss . . .

PROMPT #21:
Find a poem in another language,
and perform a “homophonic translation” on it,
which means to try to translate the poem
simply based on how it sounds.

Gettin’ Homophonic

PROMPT #21:
Find a poem in a language that you don’t know,
and perform a “homophonic translation” on it.
What does that mean? Well, it means to try to translate the poem
simply based on how it sounds.