Lady's Story as a Metaphor | Analog
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Lady's Story as a Metaphor
I. (develop a one-page description beginning
with the word "the"):
The littered tires and fragrant pools
of varnished piss in which warbling green elevators
lead up to your fourth floor apartment
(ellipses)-- external punctuation
II. (another slave narrative):
The mural she paints on her blue walls,
uncrypted, resident to chromatic smiling
emulsions of her father in his crisp prison
uniform, nails cleaned and polished (ellipses)
III. (alliteration overuse):
The staunch shouts of sated Spanish Harlem
hierarchies, project home empires
burgeoning noblewomen and dames (ellipses)--*is
used to tell us when a sentence stops
and is used in a slightly different
way for a different set of reasons
IV. (search for a tropological tool):
The cracked sugarcane voice blotching
blues somewhere between the red clay of my
wanton ears and the chaste tears of your
thirteen year old daughter (ellipses)
V. (euphemism):
This simple loving is the synopsis of
the raw emotion of your pruned gappy smile
chewing at the grip of your muted fingers
around my waist. You brand your musk,
maintaining the narrative (ellipses)--
*is
a set of periods which can be used to show that
some material was left out from some
other source that was directly cited or copied
into the given text
(*) In Control of Spelling by Louis Reyes
Rivera, unpublished
Analog Mother
for Krista Franklin
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