This next prompt is from a UK poet on Twitter that of course I stole because today was not a words day (or a cleaning day). If you would like to read more of the poet (which I intend to do so too after reading a few poems), check out Reckless Paper Birds.

In the past I have used other texts—scientific abstracts, Standard Operating Procedures, threatening Tweets, ads, passages from fiction, etc.—for erasure sources or found poems. I haven’t tried this particular writing exercise though—in which the original and my own writing are juxtaposed. Since I have not written a poem yet today, I am desperate for some method to get me started.

Below is the source material I plan to use for the exercise’s poem.

Good luck to us both!