Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Snowball II

For a description of the Snowball form/procedure, please follow the below link:

http://reoulipo.blogspot.com/2007/07/diamond-snowball.html

The following poem is an example of a standard snowball; the combined efforts of Thesaurus.com, various online catalogs of plastic surgery procedures, and my own vocabulary produced a poem that maxed out with a seventeen-letter word.

Line Reading

“O,
To
See
Love
Again
Before
Evening,”
Lamented
Baggy-eyed
Waitresses—
Dereliction
Deliquescing
Rhinoplasties,
Disintegrating
Reconstructions,
Discombobulating
Microdermabrasion.