Creativity Magazine

Y?

Posted on the 30 April 2014 by Rarasaur @rarasaur

Today’s letter is Y, and my mind went totally blank on possibilities.  I wrote a shape poem without using the letter Y*:

It's about     privilege.
  No one is     amazed or
   awe-struck    with poems
   sans the  letter
   between x & z.
   It is a
   gift of
   favour,
   granted
   to ones
   capable
   of loop,
   & vowel.
   Letters
   E and I
   rejoice,
   misfits
   n o t .

Then I thought some people might think I was making a social commentary so I decided I needed to do something more frivolous.

I thought I could take a picture of egg yolk and photoshop it.

Wonder Yolk? Not all she's cracked up to be....

Wonder Yolk? Not all she’s cracked up to be….

He might as well be walking on the sun.

He might as well be walking on the sun.

Just a run-of-the-mill eggistential crisis.

Just a run-of-the-mill eggistential crisis.

Then I couldn’t find the bunny ears I wanted, and Dave wouldn’t let me adopt a bunny just so I could take adorable pictures of her ears, so I moved on.

From

From “Where’s Waldo”, or “Where’s Wally” for y’all non-Americans. I put two Y’s in there. Click to make it bigger.

None of these were really full-post level ideas, though, so I just kept stalling. I considered just skipping the day’s challenge altogether, but I had a lot of agitated energy– the turbulent and confusing, but creative and productive sort.

I asked a friend who knows all the words in the universe if there’s a name for that type of energy. Yes, he texted back:

Not a real screenshot of the text.  Thank goodness for generators.

Not a real screenshot of the text. Thank goodness for generators.

I guess I found my Y word.

yeasty

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y

Do you ever have those days where you have more energy than is helpful?

* If you e-mail subscribe, you got the version of my poem littered with Ys. What happened is that I wrote the poem naturally and then took Y’s out.  When I copied it over, it bojangled and I guess I copied an old version.  So, chalk it up to poor editing and a worse day.  At least it was shaped like a Y. I’m calling it a win.


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