Artwork: Tim Mara, Lightbulb and Book, 1995-6
‘show me books’ exists under the strictures of a demanding rhyme scheme, and furthermore an approach to composition where the art of a poem is simply an assembly of a deposit of rhyming words. In this way the creative component arises from piecing together self-contained formal aggregates, rather than manipulating connections between words as a method of expression.
by Fred Baxter
show me books!
holy books!
shallow dreamy books
tableaux gloomy books
canto surly books
throw me books!
yellow journey books!
furrow merry stooks
callow dutifully crooks
snow glee hooks
sorrow historically rooks
tyro recipe cooks
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stringendo jalopy books!
silo baloney books!
sow free looks
hollow sorry crooks
argot recipe crooks
follow Gurney brooks
below happy looks
willow tree stooks
swallow dreamy crooks
furlough flee crooks
ghetto happy nooks
pillow journey looks
show me books!
holy books!
sparrow happy books
faux harry looks
lento happy looks
woah! angry sketchbooks!
holy books!
show me books!
dough sea books
blow sea books
go flee books
row free books
