Glenn R. Frantz
2 poems
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Simplified Rules
1.....Throw dice (broken test version).
1.....Instructions followinguish.
2..... Move one pawn; overcome spaces sleep.
3..... If the insect is wide, you may take it from the city.
4..... You have won second prize in a beauty contest.
..4... Draw again.
5..... You're a pigeon for another wish.
6..... You won a surprise piece.
..6... Back up two word spaces.
7..... Inflate another railroad bubble.
..7... (Note, the Reading Railroad is already occupied.)
8..... If a dozen sea-mullet came,
...8.. they'd stay home and make a talent show for jury duty.
9..... You have won a crossword competition.
...9.. You get to pay attention.
10.... Forfeit the sentences below.
..10.. Rethink them from the start.
11.... Pay owner the basis of standard written English;
.11... that is, pay $2,500,000.
12.... Two pieces are symbols that something has been omitted.
.12... Each blanks, each blanks.
13.... The world gets a turn.
..13.. Pay $25 to world.
14.... You have limited access to write the game.
.14... Rotate each instruction counter-clockwise.
..14.. Stay within the original phrasing.
15.... A partially fabric to in marble undertones buy.
..15.. A ditch cup to in named regard secure.
..15.. A custom beverage to in pokerish order consider.
16.... Access is lost.
..16.. Do not make any marks on this sacred can of word formations.
17.... You forget your birthday.
.17... Go back 1 year.
18.... Each sentence is unowned.
.18... Select the underlined parts of words or sentences,
.18... lowing in wondertones like Alpine cattle.
19.... If a player won a group of snowings in a calculator,
..19.. you're a round metamorphic select choir;
..19.. at once more terrible than a crown or a subject.
20.... Milkman dreams landscapes dazzling white.
...20. If you had a cat you might suspect something.
21.... There is a suit of devotion
...21. to cooperating with a meteorologist.
22.... Heads we may, with trepidation;
22.... Tails we should, with grace.
23.... Out on old kneelines into the water.
23.... You pawn your talisman.
24.... Do not finish the firs, except that boardwalk one.
25.... Inflate any lungs suddenly exhaled.
25.... Collect $200 and tune your calliope.
26.... Do not be impossible last square.
26.... (See other form.)
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Fasten Your Head, Please
When is your birthday?
Do you live here or in Brussels?
Do nod. Don't nod.
I must time my talk.
Never hurry.
They accept that with the joke.
This is your name?
Like someone in business.
Do you have a telephone?
I will call you tomorrow night.
Drawn inward. Drawn onward.
You will never accomplish anything by a glance.
These are more shy.
They gain the treasure.
I was going to evoke the Republic.
And the history of friendship.
Where are your children from?
Did you collect a ransom?
How often is this repeated?
I don't know anybody personally.
Never believe in biography.
A question which was almost superstitious came upon him.
When was your birthday?
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return to sawbuck 5.2
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Glenn R. Frantz is a native of southeastern Pennsylvania. His poems have appeared in publications such as BlazeVOX, Otoliths, ditch, Cricket, and Arsenic Lobster. His e-chapbook We Are You is available from Beard Of Bees.
**
Simplified Rules
1.....Throw dice (broken test version).
1.....Instructions followinguish.
2..... Move one pawn; overcome spaces sleep.
3..... If the insect is wide, you may take it from the city.
4..... You have won second prize in a beauty contest.
..4... Draw again.
5..... You're a pigeon for another wish.
6..... You won a surprise piece.
..6... Back up two word spaces.
7..... Inflate another railroad bubble.
..7... (Note, the Reading Railroad is already occupied.)
8..... If a dozen sea-mullet came,
...8.. they'd stay home and make a talent show for jury duty.
9..... You have won a crossword competition.
...9.. You get to pay attention.
10.... Forfeit the sentences below.
..10.. Rethink them from the start.
11.... Pay owner the basis of standard written English;
.11... that is, pay $2,500,000.
12.... Two pieces are symbols that something has been omitted.
.12... Each blanks, each blanks.
13.... The world gets a turn.
..13.. Pay $25 to world.
14.... You have limited access to write the game.
.14... Rotate each instruction counter-clockwise.
..14.. Stay within the original phrasing.
15.... A partially fabric to in marble undertones buy.
..15.. A ditch cup to in named regard secure.
..15.. A custom beverage to in pokerish order consider.
16.... Access is lost.
..16.. Do not make any marks on this sacred can of word formations.
17.... You forget your birthday.
.17... Go back 1 year.
18.... Each sentence is unowned.
.18... Select the underlined parts of words or sentences,
.18... lowing in wondertones like Alpine cattle.
19.... If a player won a group of snowings in a calculator,
..19.. you're a round metamorphic select choir;
..19.. at once more terrible than a crown or a subject.
20.... Milkman dreams landscapes dazzling white.
...20. If you had a cat you might suspect something.
21.... There is a suit of devotion
...21. to cooperating with a meteorologist.
22.... Heads we may, with trepidation;
22.... Tails we should, with grace.
23.... Out on old kneelines into the water.
23.... You pawn your talisman.
24.... Do not finish the firs, except that boardwalk one.
25.... Inflate any lungs suddenly exhaled.
25.... Collect $200 and tune your calliope.
26.... Do not be impossible last square.
26.... (See other form.)
**
Fasten Your Head, Please
When is your birthday?
Do you live here or in Brussels?
Do nod. Don't nod.
I must time my talk.
Never hurry.
They accept that with the joke.
This is your name?
Like someone in business.
Do you have a telephone?
I will call you tomorrow night.
Drawn inward. Drawn onward.
You will never accomplish anything by a glance.
These are more shy.
They gain the treasure.
I was going to evoke the Republic.
And the history of friendship.
Where are your children from?
Did you collect a ransom?
How often is this repeated?
I don't know anybody personally.
Never believe in biography.
A question which was almost superstitious came upon him.
When was your birthday?
**
return to sawbuck 5.2
**
Glenn R. Frantz is a native of southeastern Pennsylvania. His poems have appeared in publications such as BlazeVOX, Otoliths, ditch, Cricket, and Arsenic Lobster. His e-chapbook We Are You is available from Beard Of Bees.
Labels: 5.2, glenn r. frantz, summer 2011
