"Love You Millions" A Cut-Up Type Poem
I created this poem using a very rigid cut-up inspired technique of going through an article in a women's magazine and only deleting words. I kept all of the text in the same order as in the article and didn't add anything or change any tenses etc.
Love You Millions
I don’t know what was harder
Being told
Or having to explain it
“I’m poorly”
But you’re not supposed to be breaking
Feeling exhausted, worrying, fretting
Because of my illness
Our family was in danger
It seemed so unfair
Consultants can give you medicine
I’ll survive this
Get to be a mum
Get used to the side effects
Sometimes I couldn’t drag myself out of bed
Kiss me better
Hold my hand
Tears in my eyes
It became our catchphrase
“Love you millions” every night
“Love you millions” to make sure
Heartbreaking to hear
He started losing his hair
Cracked up
Laughed so hard we had tears
Rolling down our cheeks
Keep taking the medicine
Live for
“Love you millions”
Gemma Lees
Mon 10th Oct 2011 22:50
Hi Shirley, thanks for your comments. I'd give it a go, it's only 70p or so for 40 such articles in a trashy mag so you can scribble on them until you get summing useful! My book is called 'A Method In My Madness'. You can buy it on Amazon, order it through a book shop using the ISBN or get it from me! :)