Friday, April 22, 2005

Flarf to workshop

Hi,
Here's my flarf meets list poem thang (vaguely related to that first Death Valley poem we did at the beginning of the semester) to workshop next time. Still working on the order of stanzas/ lines/ differing voices etc. so any suggestions welcome.Hope the formatting pastes right!
Thanks,
Eve

Consuming Reserve

…Death Valley may conjure up pretty scary thoughts, but some of the finest [1st lines should be italics]
…Death Valley National Park @ Deathvalley.com Copyright by Preferred Consumer. All
Rights Reserved
…Area includes a variety of industrial, agricultural, and consumer products
…Our business decisions balance economics
…20 mule teams carried 22 tons of Borax on each trip
…in Teel’s Marsh, birthplace of a legend
…Magic water softener and cleanser discovered in Death Valley, Calif.
…Extensive use of post-consumer recycled content paper products
…Dial Corporation
…All Rights Reserved

…Death Valley may conjure up pretty scary thoughts, but some of the finest
…Wildflower ALERT!!!
…Constant rain creates sea of rare blooms
…Desert Gold! Show starts from Furnace Creek to Badwater. Desert Gold! Pink Sand
Verbena, white Primrose roadsides! Desert Gold! Devils’s Golf Course to Jubilee
Pass!!!
…Tourists swarm to see blooms at Death…
…Beware deep washouts…Keane Wonder Mine Road open again
…In brain boiling summer heat
…we toured the arid 130-degree Death Valley dust bowl
…in the latest four-wheel-drive sport/utility vehicles
…Death Valley Days and Dark Nights Secure Reservation Form: VERY IMPORTANT
DISCLOSURE NOTICE: Please Read.
…It constitutes part of your contract for travel related services
…All Rights Reserved

…Death Valley may conjure up pretty scary thoughts, but some of the finest
…Epinions has the best comparison shopping information on Death Valley National Park
…Death Valley and Las Vegas are inseparable, you have to accept
…The mass-produced, mall-induced consumer society
…Boric Acid found in dried salt lake beds used in wide range of consumer products
…On Sunday we all drove to Death Valley
…That was my favorite trip
…We kept moving
…windows rolled up, on air-conditioned life support
…“Death Valley” is not a positive nickname
…Tourism up despite flooding
…Story of western expansion, wealth, greed, suffering, ultimate triumph
…hard won bounty
…All Rights Reserved

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