So my english teacher gave our class a fun little assignment, a transcription process called "Slim Lit." You take a piece of literature you've read and condition it into a poem. You don't have to merely abridge the story into a poem that just recounts the events. You can make it into somethign that mirrors underlying themes of the piece, what you drew from the piece, explicit depiction of characters, or even a mix of your assertions with it's assertions.
I decided to use two peices, and had the second contrast to and allude to the first. Please feel free post your own Slim Lits.
Allegorical ouverture:
Yearning secures insight
Learning obscures light
Should means enlight?
Could scenes invite?
What darkness incites
That thoughtless delight
King Leopold's Dissonance:
I am the light that shined
Righteous rigorous refraction refined
I am the scene of darkness over autonomy
The thoughtless means of your atrophy
You are the elastic utilitarian swine
Made for my catalytic aryan dine
This is liberation
This is desiccation
Of all your fluid expectations
for all your numbed sensations
and innocuous claims of atrocity
I conduct my symphony of anomie
Yes, I admit, to your lithe homilly
But, to wit, it falters to my soliloquy
*inserts self deprecating comment*
*awaits a subversing or qualifying statement*
Slim Lit
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