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• Forum » Collaborative poem in progress: "Test" (17 posts)
• carolee said 6 months ago:

  We’re doing a line-by-line. Cut and paste the current version, and add a line to the bottom and post it!

  “Test”

  But I haven’t studied
  You should have told me
  to wear pants in the classroom.
  This conditioned air raises the hairs
  I didn’t have time to shave. Where are
  sets, freshly-painted cardboard rocks
  Maybe I can act my way out of this scene
  or maybe the writing will kill me. And now
  the instructor looks at me suspiciously

• Julie Jordan Scott said 6 months ago:

  “Test”

  But I haven’t studied
  You should have told me
  to wear pants in the classroom.
  This conditioned air raises the hairs
  I didn’t have time to shave. Where are
  sets, freshly-painted cardboard rocks
  Maybe I can act my way out of this scene
  or maybe the writing will kill me. And now
  the instructor looks at me suspiciously
  so I return the glare with an upturned eyebrow and

• Michael said 6 months ago:

  But I haven’t studied
  You should have told me
  to wear pants in the classroom.
  This conditioned air raises the hairs
  I didn’t have time to shave. Where are
  sets, freshly-painted cardboard rocks
  Maybe I can act my way out of this scene
  or maybe the writing will kill me. And now
  the instructor looks at me suspiciously
  so I return the glare with an upturned eyebrow and
  dig furiously in my Patchwork Fossil purse for a pencil

• carolee said 6 months ago:

  so I return the glare with an upturned eyebrow and
  dig furiously in my Patchwork Fossil purse for a pencil.
  there is never a number 2. there is never a point.

• Dana Guthrie Martin said 6 months ago:

  But I haven’t studied
  You should have told me
  to wear pants in the classroom.
  This conditioned air raises the hairs
  I didn’t have time to shave. Where are
  sets, freshly-painted cardboard rocks
  Maybe I can act my way out of this scene
  or maybe the writing will kill me. And now
  the instructor looks at me suspiciously
  so I return the glare with an upturned eyebrow and
  dig furiously in my Patchwork Fossil purse for a pencil.
  there is never a number 2. there is never a pointed
  response when the answers are most needed

• Jill said 6 months ago:

  But I haven’t studied
  You should have told me
  to wear pants in the classroom.
  This conditioned air raises the hairs
  I didn’t have time to shave. Where are
  sets, freshly-painted cardboard rocks
  Maybe I can act my way out of this scene
  or maybe the writing will kill me. And now
  the instructor looks at me suspiciously
  so I return the glare with an upturned eyebrow and
  dig furiously in my Patchwork Fossil purse for a pencil.
  there is never a number 2. there is never a pointed
  response when the answers are most needed
  never a desk, hole, cave, dark enough to crawl beneath

• elizabeth said 6 months ago:

  there is never a number 2. there is never a pointed
  response when the answers are most needed
  never a desk, hole, cave, dark enough to crawl beneath,
  and I realize, ten minutes too late

• Dana Guthrie Martin said 6 months ago:

  But I haven’t studied
  You should have told me
  to wear pants in the classroom.
  This conditioned air raises the hairs
  I didn’t have time to shave. Where are
  sets, freshly-painted cardboard rocks
  Maybe I can act my way out of this scene
  or maybe the writing will kill me. And now
  the instructor looks at me suspiciously
  so I return the glare with an upturned eyebrow and
  dig furiously in my Patchwork Fossil purse for a pencil.
  there is never a number 2. there is never a pointed
  response when the answers are most needed
  never a desk, hole, cave, dark enough to crawl beneath
  and I realize, ten minutes too late that I’ve inadvertently
  erased everything on the page

• Michael said 6 months ago:

  But I haven’t studied
  You should have told me
  to wear pants in the classroom.
  This conditioned air raises the hairs
  I didn’t have time to shave. Where are
  sets, freshly-painted cardboard rocks
  Maybe I can act my way out of this scene
  or maybe the writing will kill me. And now
  the instructor looks at me suspiciously
  so I return the glare with an upturned eyebrow and
  dig furiously in my Patchwork Fossil purse for a pencil.
  there is never a number 2. there is never a pointed
  response when the answers are most needed
  never a desk, hole, cave, dark enough to crawl beneath
  and I realize, ten minutes too late that I’ve inadvertently
  erased everything on the page.
  staring blankly toward the door, the answer suddenly appears

• barbara_y said 6 months ago:

  But I haven’t studied
  You should have told me
  to wear pants in the classroom.
  This conditioned air raises the hairs
  I didn’t have time to shave. Where are
  sets, freshly-painted cardboard rocks
  Maybe I can act my way out of this scene
  or maybe the writing will kill me. And now
  the instructor looks at me suspiciously
  so I return the glare with an upturned eyebrow and
  dig furiously in my Patchwork Fossil purse for a pencil.
  there is never a number 2. there is never a pointed
  response when the answers are most needed
  never a desk, hole, cave, dark enough to crawl beneath
  and I realize, ten minutes too late that I’ve inadvertently
  erased everything on the page.
  staring blankly toward the door, the answer suddenly appears
  beside the flat brown door across the hall, the red pull of the fire alarm