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@thepoeming-stepfordstanzas
October 31: Intervention level
half moons have the worst publicity
it’s all or nothing with the sky
[This is a found poem made of words located on page 2 (title), page 43 (first line), and pages 8, 62, and 63 (second and third lines) in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 31 2024.
October 30: The caged bird had to sing sometime
a kiss clung to his jawbone
the truth pinned by lipstick
[This is a found poem made of words located on pages 23, 72, and 81 (title) and pages 49, 56, 88, and 100 in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 30 2024.
October 29: Down the deep narrow stairs, or trying therapy
she was unbuttoning her feelings and welcomed them noisily
[This is a found poem made of words located on pages 107 to 109 (title) and pages 101 and 117 in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 29 2024.
October 28: Anything on the typed page
the smell of old paper curled and mended
guilty impulse and mild tranquilizer both
[This is a found poem made of words located on page 73 (title), pages 72 and 109 (first stanza), and pages 25, 108, and 109 (second stanza) in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 28 2024.
October 27: Hands
she looked at her hands the wedding-ringed one and the liberated one
hands in the open were pulled two ways hands deep in pockets ignored everything
[This is a found poem made of words located on pages 106 and 107 (first stanza) and pages 47, 85, 105, 107, and 124 (second stanza) in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 27 2024.
October 26: The radiance of us
I hope it lasts, but I bet it doesn’t
beautiful and translucent like ribboned smoke in the lamplight
[This is a found poem made of words located on pages 6 and 8 (title), page 103 (first stanza), and pages 100, 102, and 103 (second stanza) in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 26 2024.
October 25: Spooky
a huge pumpkin toothless and round
still looking very handsome compared to my husband
[This is a found poem made of words located on page 40 (title), page 55 (first stanza), and pages 36, 39, and 56 (second stanza) in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 25 2024.
October 24: The fire’s still burning
ideas in obscene poses were a mixed blessing
anything you want as long as you want anything
[This is a found poem made of words located on page 72 (title), pages 31, 33, and 84 (first stanza), and pages 71, 72, and 73 (second stanza) in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 24 2024.
October 23: Lanced
she looked through windows
this light-trimmed aching
lanced from her and slid over housefronts and lawns
[This is a found poem made of words located on pages 124, 125, and 126 in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 23 2024.
October 22: Something large and territorial
the evening was pressing down onto her silhouette
like a star, a trillion miles above a single speck of city
like a fence that divided her from herself
it’s easier to open to the sky when she herself was the dark wide runway
[This is a found poem made of words located on pages 7 and 8 (title), pages 8 and 9 (first and second stanzas), pages 9 and 13 (third stanza), and pages 7 and 9 (fourth stanza) in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 22 2024.
October 21: Locally grown bitterness
a tough adjustment to small-town cliché time
this town and its conflicting demands was a disaster for restless women
[This is a found poem made of words located on pages 73 and 75 (title), pages 21, 22, 27, and 50 (first stanza), pages 116, 117, and 118 (second stanza), and page 31 (third stanza) in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 21 2024.
October 20: Trust was self-conscious
for j.g.
I was waiting for something and lost interest, pushed to fold
no longer sharpening the image of teeth to throat
trust was self-conscious as it fingertipped lightly at an empty chance
[This is a found poem made of words located on pages 48 and 49 (first stanza), pages 51, 53, and 54 (second stanza), and pages 13, 15, 31, 47, and 54 (third stanza) in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 20 2024.
October 19: New Year’s
time knocked out another year
more thoughtful junk
[This is a found poem made of words located on page 122 (title) and pages 41, 43, 52, 53, 54, and 55 in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 19 2024.
October 18: Only good angles
the nights unravelled vividly alight with every colour there was
until morning paid a short-notice visit bent outward and was reborn
[This is a found poem made of words located on pages 50 and 51 (title; I added the 's' in 'angles'), pages 51, 52, 54, and 55 (first stanza), and pages 5, 54, 69, and 81 (second stanza) in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 18 2024.
October 17: Out for relaxation
a free hour calling for Bloody Marys and candid detail
[This is a found poem made of words located on page 25 (title) and pages 36, 38, 39, and 40 in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 17 2024.
October 16: Stones
women are like stones
gem-edged and engraved with strength
wearing smooth from defenses
at peace with dirt
[This is a found poem made of words located on pages 11, 29, 58, 60, 84, 85, 86, 103, and 125 in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 16 2024.
October 15: A bad dream
a bad dream
small and precise and blighting my adolescence
racing all the way or not able to walk
every word a glass or fallen silent edgily
the men and the other men
[This is a found poem made of words located on pages 32, 33, 34, and 37 in the source text.]
Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 15 2024.