accelerating yellow umbrellas

E 1 A pitchfork holds out its arms, smiling. It stands fair and broad, but Don’t allow it to fool you. It would rip your guts out in a blink if it had any luck. 2 It was long ago a bosomy B, but Months of starvation shrank its arcs into stark hooks. Watch it from your window: It looks back on its young body (That willful Apollo) And sighs. 3 Many moons and a string of offspring go, it bawls bald and quaking sounds. Its form is a prison with iron bars, Its sharp pointing claws indict that night sky and all its stars. 4 It must quit living Or just start migrating To a city in which nobody knows its history. No sly fairy could do such injury, It will ambush you from any patch of grass. E xplanation: Wh e n I pick e d th e prompt of writing a po e m without th e l e tt e r “ E ”, e arly on, I had no id e a what to do. But th e n, I r e aliz e d that I could actually e xploit that rigid boundary to my advantag e . Writing with a confin ...

function codeAsPoetry() sometimes( code, "is", poetry ) if code == poetry then it = is.made.with( "restraint" ) simplicity = is( "valued" ) code( isReused( "to achieve" ), simplicity ) ironically( "this program, I would argue, is not poetic" ) else sometimes( "it", "isn't" ) -- I wouldn't call this poetry local this = "\112\114\105\110\116\040\034\092\110\073\032\119\111\117\108\100\110\039\116\032\099\097\108\108\032\116\104\105\115\032\112\111\101\116\114\121\092\110\034\041\059\112\114\105\110\116\040\034\116\104\105\115\032\105\115\032\109\101\115\115\121\034\041\059\112\114\105\110\116\040\034\092\116\111\118\101\114\045\099\111\109\112\108\105\099\097\116\101\100\034\041\059\112\114\105\110\116\040\034\092\110\092\116\092\116\121\101\116\032\111\098\115\099\117\114\101\100\092\110\034\041"...