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Oct 1Liked by Lisette Murphy

I love love love blackout and erasure poetry and I've always been too intimidated to try doing it with an entire book... but... your thrift store find reminds me that I was gifted "Vampirates" with Fabio on the cover as a joke. So you know... it might be time for some poetry lessons ;)

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Please report back. I bet this is gonna be fun.

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YES! This sounds like the PERFECT vessel to receive your editorial wit and whimsy! (I find it more relaxing, in fact, the worse the original prose is. )

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Well this is especially cool!!! And the poem is fantastic. I’d never seen such an exercise before.

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