"Found" Poetry

[JUDO]

I believe KillerMuffin did this once with Haikus -- finding them in porn billboards. I took the following from a newspaper article. Every line came from the article and does not change the gist of the reported information.
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Teacher Arrested in Student Sex Case

A cheerleading party gone wild
Left teacher facing felony sex charge
But last May was the date and the
Incident was not immediately reported.

Yearly cookout for squad
Tuned into an overnight stay,
The cheerleading sponsor with
Four students, two girls, two boys.

Several beers consumed,
Had sex with the teacher,
While another witnessed the act
From the bedroom doorway.

Teacher consumed alcohol
And took a sleeping pill.
Now, she cannot remember,
But felt "funny" the next morning.

No parents or students ever
Came forward with complaints.

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The challenge is to "find" poetry written within something else. Use its words, its information, but present it in the best semblence of poetic form that you can.

Good luck.


- Judo

 

[karmadog]

That was me.

Ho-ku

Believe it or not, they're rated at 4.67, although there aren't enough votes to make the toplist.

Strange story you found, JUDO.

There's a cheerleading camp down the road from me every summer. It's for young girls--Junior High, I think--but the instructors are college girls. They are total flirts. Strange that, in high school when it would have been so cool to go out with a cheerleader, I couldn't even talk to a cheerleader. Now that I'm older, they just irritate me with perkiness.

 

[KillerMuffin]

That would have been k-d. I did find a poem in my Enviornmental Geography class notes last spring and shared it with the board and took some spam and added a couple a lines to each title, but not haiku. Haiku scares me.


From the old thread last april:

Class notes that I'd like to share
None of this is mine. Some guy wrote the words, I just wrote them down cause they're on a test in the distantly near future. But it was tres cool the way they got ordered. I had to write the words next to a diagram that I can't figure out anymore.

lightning
flash of light
caused by
electrical discharges in clouds
8 millions times
a day

discharges
heat surrounding air
to
15,000 - 30,000 Celcius
(27,000 - 54,000)
Farenheit

thunder
shockwaves
through the atmosphere
caused by
violent expansion
of superheated air

 

[JUDO]

Augh! Oh well, so much for "memory fragmentation." Doesn't just happen to machines, you know.

Kdog, when does that late night talk show of yours air again?


- Judo

 

[OT]

ripped from the section headings of C++ Developer's Guide.
(best when read with bleary eyed innuendo)

-- techy kink--

listening for clients
performing manual conversions
graphic controls for images and shapes

passing arguments
form the connection
describing the host

manipulating strings
the data binding wizard
handles
the abnormal exit

O.T.
peek at my prose

 

[JUDO]

Good one, OT! Now, that's the spirit.


- Judo

 

[RisiaSkye]

I did a found poem here once, based on Erotic Poem titles from the index. It was kinda fun. It's called "Found & Lost" and it was way back in the day.

 

[JUDO]

Is "Found & Lost" still around here "in the day?"


- Judo

 

[WickedEve]

Police Said

I deleted some words from the sentences but left everything else in its original order.

six Marines for sex
threatening to tell their superiors
unless they had sex with him again

Rodney hired the men
ages 18 to 22
to do yard work at his home
police said

got them drunk
offered them dollars
plus a new truck
in exchange for sex
police said

made secret video
and audio tapes
told the men he would send
to their military superiors
unless they came back
police said

arrested Friday
pleaded innocent
$1 million bail

those serving in the military
face dismissal if caught
engaging in homosexual acts

six Marines for sex
threatening to tell their superiors
unless they had sex with him again

 

[JUDO]

That was a cool one, WE. Isn't it interesting how the reality of the information lends a certain raw feel or tone to the whole work?

 

[WickedEve]

What was neat about this particular article was the line "six Marines for sex." I love six/sex and the fact that they kept repeating "police said." It was begging to be a poem.

 

[HomerPindar]

I actually love found poetry, it demonstrates how poetic anything is/can be. For example, off the back of a back of Wise Sour Cream & Onion potato chips, with a slight change to some spacing:

Your satisfaction
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .is guaranteed.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .We are so confident that
you will like this
.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . product, that
if for any reason
you are not
satisfied
we will be happy to
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .replace it.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Simply mail this
empty
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .package along with your
reason
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .for dissatisfaction and the
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . name of the store where you
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .purchased the product.

HomerPindar

 

[WickedEve]

I actually love found poetry, it demonstrates how poetic anything is/can be. For example, off the back of a back of Wise Sour Cream & Onion potato chips, with a slight change to some spacing:

Your satisfaction
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .is guaranteed.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .We are so confident that
you will like this
.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . product, that
if for any reason
you are not
satisfied
we will be happy to
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .replace it.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Simply mail this
empty
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .package along with your
reason
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .for dissatisfaction and the
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . name of the store where you
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .purchased the product.

HomerPindar

Are you sitting in front of your computer, stuffing chips in your face while you write poetry? Will your next found poem be about the ingredients in root beer or ding dongs?

 

[WickedEve]

Directions for a product as written, with selected words removed. Can you guess what kind of product this poem is about?

remove, peel off
thread through opening
pop-up
replace

pull through opening
tear off
desired surfaces
discard the used
close tightly

 

[WickedEve]

Literotica's Welcome (well, bits and pieces of it )

your source for
the hottest fantasy
original sex
variety

huge adult fantasies
always on the lookout
for exciting ideas

we encourage you
with any comments
we can make
more pleasurable for you

have fun
and enjoy no minors

 

[HomerPindar]

Are you sitting in front of your computer, stuffing chips in your face while you write poetry? Will your next found poem be about the ingredients in root beer or ding dongs?

actually, I just finnished dinner sitting in front of dis 'ere computer...

I ate the chips earlier though

But, that is the whole fun of "found poetry," turning the bag of chips into poetry. Let's see what else I have sitting around the table/desk of my computer....

Consider two workers,
one blue-collar,
the other white collar,
both affected
by the downsizing
phenomenon.

Robert Muse
was laid off from his job
as a machinist with
Northrop Grumman Aircraft,
in Southern California.

At age fifty-one,
James Sharlow
suddenly found himself
without a job.

Consider
two workers...

Social Inequality, M.Marger 2002, 107.

HomerPindar

 

[JUDO]

I just realized how fun it would be to create a "gallery" showing of found poetry. Write the poem out in some medium (paint, pen, watercolor, type, computer, etc.), then paste the original article, directions, whatever that it was taken from to the same piece of paper. Frame them, mount them and put them in a gallery of "Found" poetry.

How cool would that be?


- Judo

 

[HomerPindar]

I just realized how fun it would be to create a "gallery" showing of found poetry. Write the poem out in some medium (paint, pen, watercolor, type, computer, etc.), then paste the original article, directions, whatever that it was taken from to the same piece of paper. Frame them, mount them and put them in a gallery of "Found" poetry.

How cool would that be?


- Judo

Cool enough that I like it, and seeing as I live in an art gallery, this could be done. Course, folks would have agree to have the show in Philadelphia for starters, and it would be next season (spring-fall) for the gallery here closes for winter.

Anyone want to help push this idea out of "cool ideas" and towards "might happen"?

HomerPindar

 

[RisiaSkye]

Here ya go, JUDO...

Found & Lost

{original disclaimer: **This is a "found poem"--fragments of erotic poem titles from this site, which have been reworked and rearranged. If the title of your poem appears here, please consider this an homage**}

Sublime Surprise, Sweet slumbering
Oblivion of submission.
Tortured kisses taking me slowly,
Tastebuds mingle
On my tongue
Tears are falling.
Failed cure the first night, forgotten
Glorious intrusion of
The one before you.
A secret dance of seduction,
Your touch. The taste of us is
A trap the dream denies.
Daylight brings the flame of life, a
Mirror full of lost secrets and the end of our
First night (Survived).

 

[JUDO]

Cool enough that I like it, and seeing as I live in an art gallery, this could be done. Course, folks would have agree to have the show in Philadelphia for starters, and it would be next season (spring-fall) for the gallery here closes for winter.

Anyone want to help push this idea out of "cool ideas" and towards "might happen"?

HomerPindar

I'm in. What do we do first?


- Judo

 

[karmadog]

I could use a cheese steak. No. I need a cheese steak!

 

[Angeline]

Cheesesteak?

You want Pat's or Geno's? Onions or no?

Homer, you pick it up--you're closer.

 

[Angeline]

Found Poetry

I wrote about this in another thread, but when I was in college, my friend and I would make found poems by switching tv channels and writing down the first line we heard. Then we'd put them together.

We also (this is so obnoxious) would follow people around our local mall secretly recording them and later making poems from random lines in the conversations.

Came up with some very funny poems that way.

 

[JUDO]

Re: Found Poetry

I wrote about this in another thread, but when I was in college, my friend and I would make found poems by switching tv channels and writing down the first line we heard. Then we'd put them together.

We also (this is so obnoxious) would follow people around our local mall secretly recording them and later making poems from random lines in the conversations.

Came up with some very funny poems that way.

That's great. The trick for putting the result in a gallery of "Found" poetry would be to display the original "source" material along with the edited final.

My poem above was taken from a newspaper article, so I was thinking of painting silver letters on purple paper (for the result), mounting that an angle on black and gluing the original article (the source) to a raised black block on the black background. Then I would take the whole thing and put it behind glass in a light-wood framed shadow box.

Or something like that (that's how I see it in my head).


- Judo