NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POEMS

JUST A MATTER OF TIME

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 | Permalink

he mortgaged himself to her / people thought oh it's just a phase / just a matter of time / today in their home / i thought of this / and became rich

This is poem 15 out of 30 celebrating April as National Poetry Month (Inter)national Newspaper Blackout Poetry Month.

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One Comment on “JUST A MATTER OF TIME”

  1. Austin Kleon Says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 11:53 am

    Thought I might add that this poem was done from a pretty good article about Rembrandt in the NYTimes.

    I originally circled “he mortgaged himself to” and “art” but thought that wasn’t very transformative or whatever, and blacked out the “ot” in “other” to make “her”. Then it just flowed from there.

    Sorry, that was kind of a boring explanation.