Fight
everybody fights
Except
that I was afraid
Privately,
quietly
Really,
really
Just,
just
I snapped
And I wondered
was it just me?
Tag: robert heinlein
STAR*** **OOP**S: A Surreal Space Poetry Project – Page 3
The numbers
hypnotize you
Two and ten
Twelve
odd, even,
the count
Look as
time
is destroyed
They take
no prisoners
You, roughnecks,
got a minute…
to
shine!
minutes
drop
STAR*** **OOP**S: A Surreal Space Poetry Project – Page 2
I don’t think I’ll be sharing every single page of Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein that I turn into poetry, I suppose it depends on the response I get. Here is page 2:
Not one had gone
over the
drop.
I felt the hole
no way,
not good,
to help.
Sadly, you could
expect the days
to cost
everything.
Cost you
a hero.
You do it.
STAR*** **OOP**S: A Surreal Space Poetry Project
I got this crazy idea for a poetry project. I was going to take one of the numerous books I have lying around and use it to create poetry! Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein wasn’t the only book lying around but I figured it’s be the most interesting book to try this with. How does it work? I use each page to write a poem striking out the words I don’t want to use, whatever is left is the poem. Each page is it’s own poem and the entire book is one really long weird poem. Starship Troopers is 263 pages long so I’ll have plenty of fodder! Here is the first installment:
I always had hypnotic brainwaves
trembling in the dropJelly,
like coconuts while they fell
wasn’t bad