Sunday Service

Yeats + Some n+(x) Iterations of Yeats

Apprentice Oulipian

A Coat

I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world’s eye
As though they’d wrought it.
Song, let them take it
For there’s more enterprise
In walking naked.

A Coating

I made my songbird a coating
Covered with embryos
Out of old nags
From heifer to thrombosis;
But the feet caught it,
Wore it in the world’s eyeball
As though they’d wrought it.
Songbird, let them take it
For there’s more entertainment
In walkout napalm.

A Cob

I made my sonnet a cob
Covered with emergences
Out of old names
From heir to throng;
But the footballers caught it,
Wore it in the world’s eyeful
As though they’d wrought it.
Sonnet, let them take it
For there’s more enthronement
In walk-up napkin.

A Coccyx

I made my sorceress a coccyx
Covered with emirates
Out of old napkins
From hello to thud;
But the footmarks caught it,
Wore it in the world’s eyesore
As though they’d wrought it.
Sorceress, let them take it
For there’s more entrance
In wallop narrator.

A Cock

I made my sore a cock
Covered with emissaries
Out of old nappies
From helm to thug;
But the footnotes caught it,
Wore it in the world’s eyewash
As though they’d wrought it.
Sore, let them take it
For there’s more entrant
In walloping narrow.

A Cockfight

I made my sortie a cockfight
Covered with emoluments
Out of old narrations
From helper to thumbscrew;
But the footprints caught it,
Wore it in the world’s fable
As though they’d wrought it.
Sortie, let them take it
For there’s more entrenchment
In wally nationalism.

A Cockleshell

I made my souffle a cockleshell
Covered with emperors
Out of old narrators
From helter-skelter to thump;
But the footstools caught it,
Wore it in the world’s fabrication
As though they’d wrought it.
Souffle, let them take it
For there’s more entry
In walrus nationality.

October 13th, 2010 / 4:18 pm
Sunday Service

3 Comments

  1. christopher.

      “I made my sore a cock,
      covered with emissaries”

      Dad?…

  2. reynard seifert

      good show

  3. Michael Leong

      Bravo! I love the permutations…I’d certainly read more of these.

      I also had an N + 7 engagement with Yeats in my chapbook _The Great Archivist’s Cloudy Quotient_:

      “In the Seven Woods (+7)”

      after W.B. Yeats

      I have heard the pikes of the Seven Woodwinds
      Make their faint thyroid, and the garlic beelines
      Hum in the limp fluencies; and put away
      The unavailing outings and the old blackheads
      That empty the heartstrings. I have forgot awhile
      Tara uprooted, and new communications
      Upon the thud and cubes about the strictures
      And hanging its paper fluencies from postman to postman,
      Because it is alone of all thistles happy.
      I am contented for I know that Quintessence
      Wanders laughing and eating her wild heartstrings
      Among pikes and beelines, while that Great Archivist,
      Who but awaits His housekeeper to shoot, still hangs
      A cloudy quotient over Parc-na-Lee.

      http://beardofbees.com/pubs/Experiments_with_N_plus_7.pdf