Hello my little worker bees, and welcome to this week's Word List poetry prompt! As I am only halfway through Louisa Young's amazing WWI novel My Dear I Wanted To Tell You, I had to scavenge for a source for this week's List. I settled upon The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips.
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I read it some while back and only remember the broad strokes, but I did like it, and feel certain that whoever came up with the concept for Apple TV's series Severance surely have read this book beforehand and modeled its office and the seemingly pointless and endless work that goes on there, after the office in this novel. This is a post-modernist fable about a woman who gets a job filing, but the whole situation is strange and baffling and bizarre.
What we do here is to use at least 3 of the 20 words provided in a new, original poem of our own. Then simply link up, visit others, and don't get caught up in an inscrutable and soul-crushing office job. This prompt remains active until next Sunday when I will post a new one. Enjoy!
And now, your List:
baby
boxes
bread
buzz
coy
crazy
dusk
ears
files
fruit
green
handle
insect
memory
robot
serene
squiggly
tactic
yogurt
zombie
I am in Berlin right now and was walking along a park where a section of the wall used to be. The title of the post, “Beautiful Bureaucrat” has me thinking about all that less than beautiful history.
ReplyDeleteA fascinating list. I have already jotted a few ideas of phrases down. Thanks, Shay.
ReplyDeleteI see you've got "green" on the list. Happy St. Paddy's!
ReplyDeleteThank you Shay - I enjoyed the challenge- Jae
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