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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

5 JERK

I usually put my ramblings at the end, but....

An Aside:  So here again is what happens when Three Word Wednesday [3WW=>clench(ed), faint, prod] meets the last Wednesday of the month...a clarity pyramid.  I got stuck on the idea of using prod like a cattle prod; it took quite some effort with a lot of scribblings and extra lines with syllables that didn't fit right, and in the end while I kept some of the ideas that blossomed from this I ended up not using prod in that manner.  



JERK
spasm
convulsion

the smell of burnt hair
was faint as electro-
shocks coursed through his clenched body

"prod into a violent fit."



An(other) Aside:  This is an example where multi-syllable words take a bit away from the visual "pyramid-ness" of this form.

5 comments:

  1. ugh on the electro shocks....shivers...we were talking about capital punishment today in world history because we are talking about all the beheadings of english monarchs...

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  2. It wasn't the jerk i expected..and i love that..and always love the idea of a clarity pyramid..jae

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  3. you can actually cringe and feel the prod with this one

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  4. It's obvious how you drifted into this from thoughts of cattle prod. Great work--every time you do one of these clarity forms, I think I would like to try it.

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