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Raw Blame History

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:

Forget
Change
Story
Laugh
Snark
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.
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