Aquarium by: Susan A. Morales, Clay, 2018
Exquisite Corpse, a Surrealist game
Played By Creative Writing 1, Engl 2307.5001, Fall 2018-Jared Davis, Giovanni Gonzalez, Jasmine Lee, Jessica Lemmer, Evelynn Martinez, Catherine Salinas, Luis Sandoval, Dale Smith, Tim Stinson, Joshua Svajda, Jonathan Ward, and Michelle Brown
Intolerance lobbed like a whale breaching the ocean
The land turns gold as you go west
The zebras of the wild, the undertow
Run sweet beneath your boat
Walking on tiles that sink too fast
If I have one more glass, that should be enough
Yellow laughter, artful thoughts, grey mystique
Broody notes of warrantless hate in the sky
The unforeseen consequences of inventing language
Come to me sweetie. Welcome me inside—
There’s a lot of emotion between you and I
Ants on my feet, cricket in my head
Expectation and anticipation bubble up.
*Rules of the game:
Each participant composes one line, folds the page to cover his/her/their work, and then the next person writes a line. No one sees any of the previous lines until the poem circles the room once. At this point, we unfold the page to reveal the randomly composed poem.