Take a cue from Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, which tells a single narrative in ninety-nine ways, and write a poem based on what happened just after you got up this morning. Then use one or more of these filters to revise the poem:
- onomatopoeia (integrating the sounds of your morning into the language of its telling),
- litotes (a supremely understated start to the day),
- overstatement (embellishing every detail),
- olfactory (emphasizing the morning's smells),
- tactile (emphasizing the morning's physical feel),
- gustatory (emphasizing the morning's particular taste).
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