Zelda's Inferno exercise: gathering rubbish in the corner of the harbor

Submitted by Tom Swiss on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 21:16

Zelda's Inferno exercise: write a poem using at least half of the following words (from http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/RandomWord/Rand
omWordPlus.aspx):

contrary rubbish leading twisting count disco gathering double inject name two straight rural west inefficient


gathering rubbish in the corner of the harbor
twisting current leading together
empty potato chip bags and styrofoam cups and sticks and leaves
double down with a dead fish
floating on its side
one eye staring straight up at the sky

sometime I want a team with skimmer nets to walk the edge of the harbor --
I don't care if its inefficient --
just to pick out the garbage others throw in or let be washed in

it's sort of like
inside my head
bit of garbage injected in advertisers, salesmen, bankers, priests,
politicians
every so often I must walk the perimeter of the mind
remove that which does not belong
clean the trash dumped by others
the dead fish of expired ideas, rotting

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