Week 10: Found Poems, Google Poems

Okay, so for week 10 we were working with found poems. We followed this:

§ Google poem, based on M. Silem Mohammad's Deer Head Nation : use Google search results as the source material for a poem: erase as much as you like, but don't add anything. Many variations possible.
I decided to go with Walt Whitman as my subject.



Look at that sick beard!!!


I want to do one on some other poets, too, to make a kind of series, but I ran out of time. Alas, for another day. It sounded ridiculous to read out all the "by"s in class because they were clearly meant to be looked over when you read them, and only in passing. I hope you'll get that they are supposed to be homonyms for "bi"

"Selections of Walt Whitman"

Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original…

He was part of the transition between—
The bridge between—
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The founder of this group,
The “Good Gray Poet”—
Free, humble, modest—
Kissed him, Oscar Wilde.

            by        by        by        by        by        by        by        by        by        by        by        by

almost without restrictions
            he wrote
                        “I hear America singing”
            For schoolchildren

He was, is,
did not
hide
his
homosexuality

almost without restrictions
            he wrote
                        in free verse
                                    “The kiss of Oscar Wilde is still on my lips.”

            by        by        by        by        by        by        by        by        by        by        by        by

Step back in time.

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This is for the use of anywhere at no cost and almost no restrictions