Oulipost #24. Homosyntaxism is a method of translation that preserves only the syntactic order of the original words. To give a rudimentary example, if N=noun, V=verb and A=adjective, the outline NVA could yield solutions such as “The day turned cold,” “Violets are blue,” “An Oulipian! Be wary!”) Choose a sentence from your newspaper source text and write as many homosyntaxisms as possible based on that same variation.

Lovesick

She put a curse on me.

It tightened the night around us.

We felt an ache beyond ourselves.

I proclaimed an oath for her (alone).

They (the stars) winked in collusion with who?

I spun the spell inside myself.

She put a curse on me.

Sourced from The Contra Costa Times, Bay Area News Group, April 24, 2014 (Garfield, Jim Davis.)