The idea for today's poem is to take a poem, deconstruct it to its parts, (sorry Derrida for being so very willy-nilly with deconstructionism), and then reconstruct it, with parts of speech as the only guide, replacing each word with my own.
The poem I deconstructed, then reconstructed is Billie Holiday by E. Ehtelbert Miller. The ESL Desk was extremely helpful in finding parts of speech lists.
Henry Ford
Danna
occasionally the dead
work harder than the living
illustrious industrialist,
contemptuously all ubiquitous,
thought himself alive
dictates balefully accelerated
worth, an analysis, to his secretary
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