A Poem Blackouted from Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye"
August 26, 2022ā¢133 words
Blackouting a poem is when you take a piece of existing text, and blackout text from it to create your own text. Here is one I tried to imbue with meaning and made in English a few days ago (grammar slightly edited), as best I can recall it.
It had begun with Christmas
Mother wanted me great pleasure
It resisted my flesh.
I had only one desire
to find Beauty
"Here" they said, this is beauty: love
it was
dying
rusty
sawdust
Grown people frowned
What's the matter with you?
Outrage
Authority
Years of unfulfillment
If you want to know what I was trying for, here: https://listed.to/p/vUv3wnmcVT
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