to write (v.)

Source: Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 

 

Method: An erasure culled out from Chapter 5, page 101.


Note: 

First published in #theslideshow, Five 2 One Magazine, February 2017.

prayer (n.)

Source: Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 

 

Method: An erasure culled out from Chapter 5, page 84.


Note: 

First published in the Spring 2017 issue of After the Pause.

Breathing Room

Source: Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 

 

Method: An erasure culled out from Chapter 5, page 85.




 

In Theory

Source: Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 

Method: An erasure culled out from Chapter 2, page 25. 

pain (n.)

Source: Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 

Method: An erasure culled out from Chapter 5, page 89. 

Rolling Stone

Think about it for a while.

The effects of history

makes a three-sided hole

where the money is. Living

in useful terror [for hours rather

than centuries], look into

a mirror frequently. Stare

at pretty things, the bucolic void,

and have a wet dream

as eternity fails to go by.

And then it is time to go.

Always time to go.

Source: Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 

Method: This is a remixed poem composed from select lines and phrases from those pages that are multiples of ten (10-170). 

How To Make Art

Construct a life made
from things glued to
a lollipop stick; a thing without
precedent, a mass of nothing
with a twist. 

But that's not enough anymore.
No art is possible without being
alive, hurt, and undignified.

Source: A cento composed from select lines and phrases from Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 


Note: First published in issue 3 of The Black Napkin.