30 Day Poetry Challenge - Day Four

Day Four - Look to Craigslist, newspapers, Twitter, anywhere for unintentional
poetry. Using the original text, punctuate and use line breaks to turn it into a poem. 

Write is Wrong

(Adapted from the article, “'Chapter 1: Clark,' Reports Awful Manuscript,” reported in The Onion, Issue 49.12

http://www.theonion.com/articles/chapter-1-clark-reports-awful-manuscript,31731/ )

{NEW YORK.}

An absolutely terrible manuscript…

Written by local aspiring novelist,

Brandon Heath,

Reported today that “Chapter 1:

       …Clark.”

“It was late autumn,

The leaves on the trees

Were a brilliant, blazing red,

And Clark Thurman

Was gazing at the passerby…

Just outside his apartment window,”

Continued the just awful first draft

Of Heath’s 80,000-word book…

       …The Final Light…

Which according to its author,

Details the interlocking fortunes

Of three strangers living in 1950s

       Manhattan,

And which sources confirmed…

       …is very bad.

“For a moment,

Clark thought he heard Mary

Call his name from the kitchen,

But then he remembered…

…school was back in session…

And the woman he loved

Had returned to her studies

       at Swarthmore…

Leaving him here…

       …alone.

This time of year

Often saw Clark fall…

Into such melancholy thoughts.”

At press time…

Heath’s thinly sketched character

Was rushing

To respond to an unexpected knock

On the front door of his

        apartment.