Barry thanks I quite like the idea of finding 'founds' in fetid stagnant suppurating stuff-the picking out say! There was another area of fun the complete mistake -ie BBC had headline 'NEW TECHNIQUES HALVE RECOVERY' for 'new techniques halve recovery time' Cheers stagnant P -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Barry Alpert Sent: 15 June 2011 19:28 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: GUARANTEED found poem Advertising for one particular guaranteed funeral plan appears so often on television screens in this area of guaranteed administrative incompetence that I'm certain it's guaranteed to fail. To further my case, I need merely to cite numerous scandals and failures at cemeteries and mortuaries which have been recently reported on by local print and video journalists. So for me, your found language not fresh enough to constitute a striking found poem. Watch for one Republican presidential candidate to rewrite your text by adding a colon at the end followed by 2 lines: don't / die. Barry On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:49:29 +0100, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >GUARANTEED >(found poem) > >guaranteed >funeral >plan > > >pmcmanus >q857 >this sort of struck me!! >Not sure if it is a poem or not but made me think-like eg non guaranteed=