task two - poem

In pairs we were asked to walk around college making notes of every piece of text we saw, at this time we had no idea what we were making notes for so we just took down everything, information from signs, posters, leaflets and even the menu from the canteen. This is what i wrote down;

• Fire door keep shut
• tell me your secret
• im looking for a model for life drawing, I have no money but I can model for you in return
• spreading indie disco to the masses
• helping to put roofs over heads
• looks can kill
• in the frame
• help us abolish fur farms
• I dont understand why anyone faced with a similar opportunity would turn it down
• here to help and happy to do so
• just in case your keeping score
• be a responsible parent, dont give your children alcohol
• breakfast menu
• bacon sandwich
• sausage sandwich
• egg sandwich
• flavoured syrup shot
• earl grey
• shut up
• queer
• please refrain from using mobile phones in the reception
• we are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things
• jurassic park golf
• stairs to all floors
• brogan ross
• sophie shields
• olivia steele
• the time of the singing of the birds has come
• in other words
• one red paper clip
• 30,000 years
• fools and other stories
• in the glass cube

Then in our new pairs we were given the task of turning all these phrases into a poem, half the class asked to create a poem that made sense and the other half asked to write one that didnt make sense, we were asked to write a poem that didnt make sense.
The person that i had paired with kept the copy of the poem which we wrote so i re-rote a new one using the words and phrases which i found.
Here is the poem:

Jurassic park golf,

tell me your secret,

stairs to all floors,

one red paper clip.

In the glass cube,

Sophie Shields,

in other words,

Olivia Steele.

Flavoured syrup shot,

in the frame,

in other words,

looks can kill.

Bacon sandwich,

sausage sandwich,

egg sandwich,

shut up you queer.

At first it sounded easy, writing a poem that made no sense whatsoever, however once you start writing you kind of subcontiously pair things together and the words start making sense. Also as you start writing your poem starts to build up a rhythm and a flow, and you have to find similar sounding lines and words to keep the rhythm of the poem.
Gary introduced us to this tip to help with our writing;

Make the Strange Familiar

Make the Familiar Strange