Prompt: Try a version of Perec’s vowel experiment. Write a theme in which you use the words that include the vowels on only one side of the keyboard: “a,” “e,” and “y,” or “u,” “i,” “o.” This will be difficult, and the theme can be quite short. See if you can write sentences that make some sense, or, see what sense the sentences you’ve written make. Can you think of a good title?
IOU
I look down on thou. Thus so, I sow rough troughs of puny insults, on your un-won points in school, on your untrustworthy mind. You will not miss this kicking I thrust on you, if you go. Or, if you will, if you grow. You must know, I point this out to you, out of worry for you. If you will hold on to good, you will not know of this wondrous pity I hold for you for long. No, if you grow, you will, point out to yours truly, humbly, “IOU.”
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