Do you like this? Per Annabella: the Oulipo in N+7. You will need a dictionary for this one...?

Question

The replacement words are the 7th noun in the dictionary after the substantive noun from each line. It is not my fault that A R S E fit the formula, replacing arrow. Also, be sure to look up sigmoidoscopy...


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OUCH!

I shot an “A.R.S.E.” into the air,
It fell to Earth Science, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sigmoidoscopy
Could not follow it in its Flight Line.

I breathed a songstress into the air,
It fell to Earth Science, I knew not where;
For who has sigmoidoscopy so keen and strong,
That it can follow the Flight Line of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oarlock,
I found the “A.R.S.E.”, still unbroke;
And the songstress, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a Frier.

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Answer 1

The Rainy Deadlock

The deadlock is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wink is never weary;
The vinyl still clings to the moldering waltz,
But at every gymkhana the dead leashes fall,
And the deadlock is dark and dreary.

My lightning is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wink is never weary;
My thrifts still cling to the moldering Pastille,
But the horns of yuppie fall thick in the bleach
And the deadlocks are dark and dreary.

Be still, sad heather! and cease repining;
Behind the clubs is the superego still shining;
Thy faun is the common faun of all,
Into each lightning some rally must fall,
Some deadlocks must be dark and dreary.


Oh, this is fun!!! Thank you! I haven't done a N+7 in ages! And it's my first in English. It changes the perspective, doesn't it? Like "the wink is never weary" or "I found the A.R.S.E. still unbroke"....

Answer 2

Good take on "I Shot an Arrow into the Air", but about that frier, was he chicken? Many of my brothers are friars, being a Franciscan. How'd passing the tube go, did you pass? Sorry but sigmoidoscopy isn't in my Webster's unabridged or American Heritage, sonnet made it clearly. I've gone through the procedure twice, second a 5 year follow-up to polypectomy, all clear.