April is National Play with Words Month!Actually it's National Poetry Month but to keep the prompts relatively short and encourage people who cringe at the word poetry, it's a whole lot more about playing with words.
Last year I introduced Kenneth Koch's poetry warm up exercises. (You can see them all here by clicking on Poetry Warm Ups over on the right.) They're a way of playing with words to get stuff flowing :-)
No actual poetry will be produced, though you may come up with an intriguing line that leads to a poem or a story.
For today, use the structure of the first tabloid headline and generate similar lines of the form:
Food -- Noun -- -ed verb
Cucumber Killer Captured
Bean Bomber Bamboozled
Anchovy Anarchist Annihilated
Top 10 Tabloid Headlines from APRIL 1998
- CUCUMBER KILLER CAPTURED! -- WWN
- BEN FRANKLIN SHOCKER!He was a Founding Father, a signer of the Declaration of Independence -- AND A SERIAL KILLER! -- WWN
- Teens ordered to clean toilets after peeing on theater seats! -- WWN
- 10 GIRAFFES HAVE HEADS TORN OFF -- when zoo truck passes under low bridge -- WWN
- Kitten drowned by a giant goldfish! Cat dips paw in tank & fish pulls him in! -- WWN
- Exploding grapefruits kill hundreds in Argentina! -- WWN
- DEAD HUBBY BURIED WITH WINNING LOTTO TICKET IN HIS POCKET Anxious wife digs up 103 corpses looking for him! -- WWN
- FARMER DEVELOPS THE ELVIS CHICKEN! New birds sport slick hairdos & swivel their hips when they walk! -- WWN
- Gun-totin' Texan shoots baby kitten. . . THEN CLAIMS SELF-DEFENSE! -- WWN
- VENGEFUL OLDSTER SUES DAUGHTER FOR DEAD WIFE'S ASHES . . . SO HE CAN FLUSH THEM DOWN THE TOILET! -- WWN
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