The author must not have intended.
The poem may not be sourced.
It does not qualify
for our purposes,
etc.,
The original text must not be
except by omission, punctuation, or lineation.
Leave the poem untitled.
__________
Written by Timothy Green and Megan O’Reilly Green
www.foundpoetry.org
“Rules,” The Found Poetry Project, 2/1/09
Found by Scott Herstad
Chesterfield, NH
Have you ever
wondered if the relationship
between mathematics
and music extends to the composition
and interpretation of musical works?
If you have, then this course
is for you. If you already know
the answer because you
participated last year,
then this course is still for you
because we will have new material.
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Written by Thomas Fiore
www.math.uchicago.edu (PDF)
Course Abstract, “Mathematics and Music,” 1/10/09
Found by Alexandra Clark
Chicago, IL
Through a nice, colorful, special meeting,
John Stewart lived spleenful years in his house of two floors,
single living, not disturbed by violence,
his garden was fretful and water drinking plants
everyday he passed by the rosy roads of sunflowers,
roses and cheerful singing of the white birds over his neighborhood.
Being lonely about the last thirty-seven-years-old of age,
he had never tried to ask some girls to kiss him,
because it was scarcely for him to take his confusion
in his mind.
He served matters to people around the world
in a little sheet of day.
The world is past over the future,
which last nothing to himself
not the important times of life.
The days went by through time of seed
which can be cold enough to expire one man’s life.
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Written by Richard Wei
Homework Assignment, December 2006
Found by Andy Bailey
Venice, CA
Andy: “This piece was written by Richard Wei, a student in an after-school writing class I taught in San Marino. Like many of my students, Richard was a recent Chinese immigrant. I gave them a homework assignment on character development, which was supposed to be a straight list of details and this is what he turned in.”