The "Exquisite Corpse" was a parlor game played by the Surrealist artists...

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One student wrote a poetic line on a single sheet of paper, folded the paper so no one else could see it, and passed it to the next student to repeat the process. Here are the independent lines.


the freezing air of a February morning

shiny shoes running for their dreams

Death is a shining star in the dark sky

the first time that I saw you I went crazy

maggots eating away at the flesh of a rotting dog

you look at me when I am taking a bath

their love blossomed like an English garden in the spring

the boy with brown hair and eyes walks down a lonely street

I feel him looking at me with those ghostly eyes

my mother's arms, soothing my soul, pacifying my anger, caressing my uneased heart, keeping my blood running warm

and the blood came gushing out of his throat and landed in my eye

the Dark Age clears through my dark soul

as white as the Arctic Circle in winter

the smoke rises from the coffin