Constraint: First few pages of Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man. Type words repeated with phrases repeated with compound words.
Stephen: from birth to fight by Jacqueline Valencia
Queer smell queer thing
drank off drink the tea.
Supper in the studyhall
From seventyfive to seventysix
different different different
my dwellingplace God
God God God Dieu
God’s name too
shivered and yawned shivered to think
warm glow shivering sheets
wanted to yawn.
Warmer and warmer
yet he shivered
still wanted to yawn
colour the sea the sea was cold
colder at night halfdoor
bless my father bless my little brothers
bless Dante he blessed himself
received his deathwound cold and strange
dark was cold and strange
strange faces like carriagelamps
click click click click
telegraphpoles
holly and ivy
holly and ivy curtainrings.
We have the collywobbles
terrible collywobbles
turfcoloured bogwater
ivytwined branches
strangelooking waves
waves talking waves
voice of sorrow
pollingbooth language
language language
dishcover priesthunter
whiteboy eye eye God’s eye
Napkinring boatbearer
Rolledup sleeves knuckly inky hands
Zeal without prudence
is like a ship adrift.
jacqueline valencia 