roachboy

i like constraints.
constraints are rules or procedures that you follow rather than prompts which inspire---hopefully, they do both, but in the end, it's a procedure.

this one is loose, and i stole is from mixedmedia's blog:

make something from bits of overheard conversations.
you can go as far with this as you like--something in which all the dialogue is made up of bits of conversation you heard between other people---or something in which everything is made from bits of overheard conversation.

[[aesthetic rule: the less you do that is not overheard conversation, the better. ideally, you'd add just enough to make things flow in a curious way. but it's open this time, so]]

the other rule:
what you make should be about overhearing or misunderstanding of garble in some way.

the form is open (prose, poetry. declarations).
you should add something at the end which says how you used the conversation elements you collected.

so go ye forth:
eavesdrop.
manipulate.
enjoy.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite