carmen + error o i swoon so! envision a roman moon somewhere waxes even as i wane! wrens soar as i rove now once more over mere corners. o same corners over, over! no new view arises. no warm caress, roman sunrises seem a mere reminiscence. no minor vices now vex me; iron worries my sore arms. minimizes even minor verses (minor now are verses i can coin) voice on ice now, i moan “o someone ransom me, even raze me. resize me to urn size; ever in urn, remove me no more, so I can receive some zen in a coma, no cease ever!” o woe! non-roman ears receive nonsense, no more.
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Just finished Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn and really enjoyed it. It got me all hyped up to do some constraint based writing. Decided to try my hand at the prisoner’s constraint: all letters with ascenders and descenders are banned. I ended up writing about Ovid’s exile because apparently I’m a piece of shit. But actually, a banished poet is close enough to a prisoner, and the fact that so much of his misery in exile came from his inability to communicate with anyone actually makes it an appropriate story for a poem written with a moderately difficult language constraint maybe? idk.
artist unknown, unfortunately
