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A Gorey Poem [1]

Poetry [2]
10.25.16

Edward Gorey wrote and illustrated more than one hundred books, including several alphabet-driven works such as The Gashlycrumb Tinies [3] (“A is for Amy who fell down the stairs”), The Glorious Nosebleed (“She wandered among the trees Aimlessly”), and The Just Dessert (“Apologize”). In the spirit of Gorey’s dark humor unexpectedly combined with a children’s alphabet primer, write a macabre poem similarly derived from the first ten letters of the alphabet, or any ten letters of your choosing.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/a_gorey_poem [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/01/19/edward-gorey-the-gashlycrumb-tinies