Hardly anything is more DS106 #Life than pingponging daily creates with folks like Kevin aka @dogtrax. Ask this 6th grade musician teacher why he is still devoutly doing this stuff, and I bet the answer is along the lines “if I have to explain it to you…”
A recent example among many puts a bit of warmth under the gloom kettle, so bear wih me (or more likely, command W) as a blather away episode number 2106.
TDC 5110: The Frankenpoem
We start with the very first DS106 after the 14th year anniversary edition. 14 Years plus a day! On January 9 we got a challenge to write (and or illiustrate) a Frankenstein Poem
When you read a ‘Frankenstein poem’ you get the sense that it’s been composed from bits and bobs stitched together, most likely from lines and images the writer has found in their notebook. Lines that seemed too bloody good not to use somewhere.
I guess it’s in the league of the cut-up method of William S Burroughs, but with the Frankenstein metaphor, stuff strewn together from disparate parts, bolted together, if you will. I blanked a bit when I saw it, and considered it one of those “Guess I will Skip It TDCs” because “Nobody Cares If You Do it Or Not.”
It got put aside and my attention went back… what was it I was supposed to be doing? It’s there amongst the 40 some open tabs in my browser.
Stop.
Then I had the idea.
I went from tab to tab, and copied just one word, or short sentence from each open tab where my eyes went to first, pasted it into a blank text editor. There was the poem.