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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
A solo Numenga by ai li
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
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A Numenga between ai li and Alexis K. Rotella
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 _____________________________________________________________________
A Numenga between Fay Aoyagi and Alex Benedict
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
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