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NUMENGA

A Namenga is a linked poem of 10 one-liners. One of the links has to include either a number or numbers. It can either be written solo or with up to five partners. The Numenga was created by ai li on the 22 February 1997.

 

Copyright © ai li 1997

 

EXAMPLES :

13 TO DINNER by ai li
DEPORTATION with ai li and Alexis K. Rotella
BALD EAGLE with Fay Aoyagi and Alex Benedict

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13 TO DINNER

A solo Numenga by ai li
22 February 1997

 

 

13 to dinner              the cook leaves

a diet of creme brulee

gym class           not setting the alarm

voices asking for money           india

we share a blanket flying home

landlord offering to reduce the rent           young widow

peeping tom           he drops his binoculars receipt

the drought in sprinkler

fountainhead venus

mandarin ducks           counting two

 

 

 

 

Copyright © ai li 1997

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DEPORTATION

A Numenga between ai li and Alexis K. Rotella
London and Los Gatos, California
28 April - 1 May 1997

 

 

deportation news        i offer        crocodile tears

four cormorants in a tree        all looking up

airboat passenger acquiring a tan

a turtle comes in its own cooking pot

chef Pudhomme working on a new recipe

the pedophiliac        his hands in hamburger

seamen in the red light zone

in her parlor gladiolas in a pickle jar

condoms by lingerie

she buys the ones that glow in the dark

 

 

 

 

Copyright © ai li and Alexis K. Rotella 1997

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BALD EAGLE

A Numenga between Fay Aoyagi and Alex Benedict
San Francisco
4 - 17 May 1997

 

 

Bird Week           blessings on a baby bald eagle

17 salmon washed up along the gravel bar

his monthly visit to a Swiss bank

the sow shakes he head           lies down

in parched land           lavish memorial service

caught on a cholla           tumbleweed

a computer tycoon on the move           mission critical

spinning out of control I settle in the dust

fifty years since their sandbox fight

a scrap of paper           an old lottery ticket

 

 

 

 

Copyright © Fay Aoyagi and Alex Benedict 1997

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