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An Uncomfortable Game

Treated as part of the scenery,

her attitude was that of a woman

waiting to wake up, conscious enough

to know time's a wasting, waiting

for you to drop the other shoe.

Sources: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 133, 253, 260, 304, 339. Print.

Process: This poem was written using selected and rearranged phrases from the text. Poem 25 for The Poeming (I didn’t manage to get in 31 for October so I’m continuing until I get there).

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Growing from the Discontinued

Things ended in fall, the season

to lose some, no matter how much

or how little. Stopped by differences,

growth, one outdistanced the divisions,

expanded to leave behind the waste,

the arbitrary circumstances—a spent star

unable to exist in the same position again.

Sources: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 261. Print.

Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th ed. Cleveland, Ohio, 2002. Print.

Process: I used the “definitional” prompt from Oulipost in which a sentence is chosen (in this case “Things ended in fall”) for which verbs, nouns, and adjectives are replaced with their definition, and the process is repeated again for the resulting sentence with the total product being a word bank. I started the poem with the original sentence and wrote the rest from words and phrases found during the process.

Poem 24 for The Poeming

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Untaming Time

Unearth the nightmare,

the truth 'neath the image.

In a hurting rage, renege

re remaining tame, mute.

Get grit. Unhinge the grim

game. Hear the heart. Run.

Source: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. Print.

Process: Poem was written using only words that can be made from letters found in the title.

Poem 23 for The Poeming

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The Sight Held Him

The doorway was untended,

turned in response to ghost hands;

no one may believe, but some

guys stepped in dead as hell.

Source: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 387, 388. Print

Process: Erasure. The title is made up of a words selected from the second page listed, also in erasure fashion.

Poem 22 for The Poeming

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The Dread in Him

Hoping came and went,

for the time was dark,

unreadable. He had been

holding back the dread.

Not anymore. He could not

turn it off, not get up again.

Source: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 371, 372. Print

Process: Erasure of first page listed. The title is made up of a words selected from the second page listed, also in erasure fashion.

Poem 21 for The Poeming.

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A Hostage in the Pair

There were no more chances

after that first because, you see,

it must be the risk, too much

belief already—something nasty

might happen, handling me

with the sword. These are my cards,

the real trouble, me, unbeatable.

With a little more forethought,

I'm going to run.

Source: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 298. Print

Process: Erasure. The title is made up of a words selected from the same page, also in erasure fashion.

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Savoring That He Was Seen

His message waited in a moment,

perhaps the realization it was over,

how far we are from good. He tried

to make himself from adrenaline

and then said “It's going

to be the last stand”.

Source: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 294. Print

Process: Erasure. The title is made up of a words selected from the same page, also in erasure fashion.

Poem 19 for The Poeming

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In the Silence Left

I've fooled myself into believing

an unfortunate accident, now

clearly and cleanly exposed

in the diminishing tension,

beginning to hope for a moment,

perfect and precious.

Source: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 292. Print

Process: Erasure. The title is made up of a words selected from the same page, also in erasure fashion.

Poem 18 for The Poeming

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When No Sign Came to Him

With a steady, deep ache, barely

attached, he was forgetting

and broken, miserably deserted,

considering his options

and their consequences.

Source: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 246. Print

Process: Erasure. The title is made up of a words selected from the same page, also in erasure fashion.

Poem 17 for The Poeming

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In Pursuit of the Out

He was quite broken,

no doubt, in a place unspeakable.

If you can't stand the heat, get out.

He had—on this twisting, crazy road

that cut through a nightmare.

Source: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 242. Print

Process: Erasure. The title is made up of a phrase and a word part selected from the same page.

Poem 16 for The Poeming

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Out of Breath

He knew a lot of people

who had died.

Now, a good day:

just breathing.

Source: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 170. Print

Process: Erasure. I selected the words I wanted to keep and used ammo to cover the rest as best I could. Only the circled ones should be read. The title is a phrase selected from the same page.

Poem 15 for The Poeming

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Bottled Up in Boston

Fallin' away to shadows

over the fake city--

by now, every highway calls.

If I stay here, I got a name

that isn't me.

Source: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 162. Print

Process: Erasure. The title is a phrase selected from the same page.

Poem 14 for The Poeming

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Gone Mad

Out of the shadows a man-- no, a curious hallucination, inheritor of the night, the spectrum of fear. I believe in your escape-- almost. Source: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 315, 316-317. Print. Process: I used the Open Book prompt from PoMoSco in which a two-page spread is chosen and a poem is written using words and phrases without changing their order. Since I didn't find a title I liked on the spread, I used a phrase from the page before. Poem 13 for The Poeming

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“No”

It only needed to be said

once to make it concrete,

whether he had more to say or not.

Source: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 46. Print.

Process: I used the reverse of one of the pages from the previous poem (64) to get the source page for this poem (46). I selected words and phrases from this page and rearranged them.

Poem 12 for The Poeming

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View These Responses With Extreme Disquiet:

I've got your consent, I've no doubt,

but I said nothing. I believe in

the old-style contract: no refusal

regarded as enough. You're not anything,

you see, in all that darkness. Here, I speak,

grinning to the next hostage.

Source: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 64-65. Print.

Process: I used the Open Book prompt from PoMoSco in which a two-page (in this case, random) spread is chosen and a poem is written using words and phrases without changing their order. The title is a sentence selected from the second page.

Poem 11 for The Poeming

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A Final Picture

He was being carried off on a stretcher.

She was hardly coherent through her tears.

She was rocking back and forth, moaning a little.

She was beginning to see the big picture.

She was surrounded by so many,

and she was alone. But she was not

badly broken.

Source: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 4, 5, 59, 257, 264, 381. Print.

Process: I used the X:Y prompt from PoMoSco in which a syntactical pattern is chosen and words and phrases that use that pattern are listed. I started with “He was” and “She was” and ended up deciding just to use one of the “He was” fragments followed by some of the “She was” sentences and fragments. The title was found on the same page as the last line.

Poem 10 for The Poeming

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The Seven 'o Clock Buzzer

Foggy, disoriented, wondering if he was

running toward the chance to finish,

he awakened, prior dread barely muffled

by unformed emotional reactions.

As he checked in again, he was filled

with disbelief—the darkness was real.

Source: King, Stephen writing as Bachman, Richard. The Running Man. First Pocket Books Paperback ed. New York: New York, 2016. 5, 23, 31, 32, 41, 46, 111, 124, 141, 152, 411. Print.

Process: I rolled dice for page numbers and lines and copied the lines to create a word bank from which I selected words and phrases. The title was a phrase found elsewhere on page 32 which happened to be the page on which I found the line two words of the poem.

Poem 9 for The Poeming

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