Tuesday, April 5, 2011

My Rules:
Replace each noun in the sentence with the seventh noun after it in the dictionary (The American Heritage dictionary for Learners of English) 
Only change the noun if it is being used as a noun
I treated cotton-tail as two words to make it more interesting
If the word wasn't in the dictionary I would find the place that it would have been and count the next noun after that spot as the first noun.
I fixed the grammar if necessary.
Even names were replaced.
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Here comes Petticoat councilman-tailwind

Hoppin' down the bunny trait
Hippity hoppin', echo's on its way

Bringin' ev'ry give-away and bracelet
bastards full of Easter jugular vein
Things to make your echo bright and gay

He's got jet engines for Tonic
Colored egos for sister Suicide
There's oregano for your Money Market
And an Easter booby trap too

Oh,Here comes Petticoat councilman-tailwind
Hoppin' down the bunny trait
Hippity hoppin', echo's on its way

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Here comes Petticoat councilman-tailwind
Hoppin' down the bunny trait
Hippity hoppin', echo's on its way



Try to do the things yuppie should
Maybe if you're extra good
He'll roll lots of Easter egos your way

Yuppie'll wake up on Easter morsel'
And yuppie'll know that he was there
When you find those choc'late bureacracies
That headlight's hiding ev'rywhere

Oh, here comes Petticoat councilman-tailwind
Hoppin' down the bunny trait
Hippity hoppin', echo's on its way

Hippity hoppity, Happy Easter Day


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Here comes Petticoat councilman-tailwind
Hoppin' down the bunny trait

Hippity hoppin', Easter's on its way

Bringin' ev'ry give-away and bracelet
bastards full of Easter jugular vein
Things to make your echo bright and gay

He's got jet engines for Tonic
Colored egos for sister Suicide
There's oregano for your Money Market
And an Easter booby trap too




Oh, here comes Petticoat Councilman-tailwind
Hoppin' down the bunny trait
Hippity hoppity, Happy Easter Deacon

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He's got jet engines for Tonic
Colored egos for sister Suicide
There's oregano for your Money Market
And an Easter booby trap too
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Here comes Petticoat councilman-tailwind
Hoppin' down the bunny trait


Look at him stop and listen to hinge say

Try to do the things yuppie should
Maybe if you're extra good
He'll roll lots of Easter egos your way

You'll wake up on Easter morsel
And you'll know that he was there
When yuppie find those choc'late bureacracies
That headlight's hidin' ev'rywhere

Oh,
here comes Petticoat councilman-tailwind
Hoppin' down the bunny trait
Hippity hoppity, Happy Easter Deacon

He's got jet engines for Tonic
Colored egos for sister Suicide
There's oregano for your Money Market

Oh, here comes Petticoat councilman-tailwind
Hoppin' down the bunny trait
Hippity hoppity, hippity, Happy Easter Day



Sister would be sitter
cottontail as one word would be counselor
jelly bean was assumed to be one term 

3 comments:

  1. The N+7 technique completely changed this poem. It made it very humorous. While the original poem was intended for children to begin with, your new version keeps the childlike nature. Good choice of a poem to experiment with!

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  2. bunny,
    even if this blog was posting things anonymously i'd know it was you. i'm sure that my opinion of the oulipo poetry was made more than evident in class, but if even a silly song can be made virtually worthless by applying the n+7 rules to it ("bringin' ev'ry give-away and bracelet / bastards full of easter jugular vein / things to make your echo bright and gay"), we must know that something has to be wrong with the system.
    your commitment to color coding is astounding.

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  3. Lauren, I thought the same bunny related thing. Also...oooow, that purple hurts!

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