ErasureContest_SecondPrize
2nd Prize winner of the 2017 Occasional Geist Erasure Contest, announced in Geist 108. Erasure poetry begins with an existing piece of text. Letters, words and punctuation are removed—or erased. What is left behind is a new stand-alone poem, one that both complements and gives new meaning to the Erasure Text. The Erasure Text for the 2017 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest is an excerpt from Wacousta by John Richardson, one of the oldest Canadian novels.
UNDERCOVER REPORT ON THE FIXER AT PHARMALOOT
Sir— He, from report alone was not slow and with characteristics which led him to qualify secretly. According to him the original fails, they ship something blue instead, throw over in secret direct and subsequent blame. The main impressions chart as passion, capacity’s force tinged by choices in secret. He tows in wealth, nine- teen times out of twenty a mass of material substantial indeed in secret serious harm.