Fear

Fun with borrowed forms, false documents.  I'm so glad Rob taught a class on a what he calls False Documents.  Valerie Laken gave a very similar craft talk at the residency, calling it On Borrowed Forms.  A simple definition would be presenting prose, or poetry, through some guise or rhetorical faux mode.  I feel the visual presentation is as much a part of the ruse as the content, so there is an image version below.  Note: this poem is still in a some stage of revision.  

New American Dictionary

(Definition of Fear)

fear |ff`ear  |

noun

1. a sense of emotion arising from the nape of one you attempt to intimidate. 2. an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous. 3. likely to cause pain. 3. a bitter smell usually tasted at the back of the throat in the form of dryness. 4. George Bush Junior’s missile defense network. 5. the absence of something you possessed the night before. 6. usually evoked instantaneously by an outside agent. 7. Dick Chaney on a quail hunting excursion. 7. the nightly news. 8. waking up older than the day before. 9. the IRS. 10.  when the lights go out