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Art of the Arbitrary [1]

Poetry [2]
3.26.12

Open a dictionary, an encyclopedia, or a book from your bookshelves to any page; choose a word, and write it down. Repeat this nine times. Write a poem with ten couplets [3] (they need not rhyme) using one of the words from your list in each couplet, without using the first person.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/art_of_the_arbitrary [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-term/Couplet