Dissecting the Witch

This is a found poem that I created using only words found in the Government Printing Office's style manual. I've done 31 of these little pieces, but this one stood out to me because it was influenced by Gregory Maguire's Elphaba.


Dissecting the Witch

hazardous women

have a common basic element,

omitted

in all but the

postoperative examination

in ward D

dark

green body and

hypersensitive girllike

ambiguity,

un-duplicated

between sergeant and

solution,

with superior

figure and make-believe

mother-of-cold

in a dead-alive melodrama

a nonliteral

expression.