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.
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