London Word Festival is pushing a great thing right now called the Fib, a 6-line poem based on the Fibonacci sequence. If it's been a few years since your last maths lesson, that's the one that goes 0, 1, 1, ,2, 3 and so on, with each successive number being the sum of the previous two.
A Fib follows the sequence for it's syllable count - 1 syllable in the first line, same in the second, 2 syllables in the third, all the way up to 8 syllables in the sixth and final line. The result is a little like a haiku:
Why
cry,
Woolworths
stalwarts, when
there is Poundstretcher
selling just as much crap, cheaper?
See what I mean? That one I lifted from LWF's competition to find the best Fib, where a winning entry equals free passes to the festival in March. Mercy poet Nathan Jones is reprising his collaboration with art-rock disco demons Wave Machines at this year's fest, all the more reason to go in for them tickets.
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Yes I have now. I hope I win tickets for the Nathan Jones gig. He’s gorgeous!
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That was exactly my day. Pizza from the night before. Gone black around the edges. Did you enter it in the big prize draw? (The poem, not the pizza.)
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Oh
Why
and then
How, but what
about after that?
Lunch! Something from last night, warmed through.
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