Here's a game to waste your time - but it may just be enjoyable:
QUOTE:
IN A FINAL OULIPIAN CHALLENGE, Puzzler invites you to a Pied Poetry
competition. To create a Pied Poem, select an existing short poem, or a
stanza from a longer one, and rearrange the words to form a new work. You
may change punctuation and capitalization as you wish.
Here’s a Pied Poem that mathematician and Oulipian expert Martin Gardner
created, using four lines from Oscar Wilde’s “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”:
The vilest deeds like poison-weeds
Bloom well in prison-air:
It is only what is good in Man
That wastes and withers there.
—Oscar Wilde
Prison Bloom and Withers?
Poison the air-well?
What good is there in that?
It is only in deeds
Vilest man
Wastes like weeds.
—Martin Gardner
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Andrew
'Beyond City Limits', pub. ICLL @ ECU, available at topnotch indie bookshops
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