# Poetry workshop

* G: Given circumstances (Lagrange w/ Jonas being a shit)
* O: Objective (Continuity)
* A: Action (Manipulate society/history to ensure others want the same)
* T: Tactics (Shape info, influence individuals, stay observant)
* Forms:
    * Sestina:
        * Good for convincing
        * 39 line poem, repetition of words
        * 6 stanzas, words all the same, shifting within stanzas
        * Lends to conversations over time
        * 7th stanza - envoy, 3 lines, two words per line
        * See: Ethel's Sestina
    * Sonnet p8:
        * Venting, encouraging, informing, educating
        * Giving advice, monologues, memories
    * Pantoum p62:
        * Intimidate, dismiss, questioning
        * 4 line stanza, 2+4 same as 1+3 in next stanza
    * Haiku:
        * Seduce, flatter
        * Seduction, flattery, eulogizing
    * Ghazal:
        * Demand, advocate
        * Self advocacy, demand for autonomy, argument
        * 5 stanzas, same length, each line end has radif
        * Each line a rhyming word
    * Villanelle:
        * good gossip, emphasis, repeating lines

## Dear's sestina

6 words to repeat:

1. Forget
2. Change
3. Story
4. Laugh
5. Snark
6. Why

Intro: We have not spoken but for suggestions in missives for thirty years, and now you ask me why I am leaving.

* 1: Remember Qoheleth? Poor fool could never forget
* 2: Never realized that he still had change.
* 3: Never cared, despite his job, his own story.
* 4: RemembeR? Do you remember and laugh?
* 5: I know that all my words are bound in snark
* 6: But all that hides is asking why.

  

* 6: My dear, did you ever ask why?
* 1: Sure, you knew the reasons, the drive to forget,
* 5: And you know the how, because of course. My snark
* 2: Is here to obscure. I am not sorry. I will not change.
* 4: Only, I wonder. When he died, did you laugh?
* 3: Cry? Sigh? In the night, tell yourself a story?

  

* 3: I, artist of nonsense, will ever tell my stories.
* 6: The stories of too many reasons why
* 4: You took your bet. For some of them, I laugh.
* 1: Sad laughs, laughs where you shake your head. Forget!
* 2: Silly man, but sillier bet. You, also, must change.
* 5: I cannot demand, I am not you. Only hint, smile, snark.

  

* 5: Again, I do not apologize for such snark,
* 3: And were I more polite, only thank you for the story.
* 2: At my lowest, I might sigh, nod, hope for change.
* 6: I am not low. I am a perhaps-polite, I bow and ask for whys.
* 1: I have done my work, my level best to forget,
* 4: So I only hope for reasons, reassurance, commiserating laughter.

  

* 4: How silly! Hopping to hear you, of all, laugh.
* 5: But nothing else will cut through snark.
* 1:
* 3:
* 6:
* 2:

  

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* 4:
* 6:
* 5:
* 3:
* 1:

  

* 2,5:
* 4,3:
* 6,1:
