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i | Blackout Poetry Competition, First Place

o will my heart ripple as i float in the night, on the wind like everything is u n I

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An illustration of a disembodied torso, with a background of blue glued tinfoil on the left side and

A blacked out poem accompanied by an illustration of a disembodied torso, with a background of blue glued tinfoil on the left side and smudged red on the right. The remaining words in the poem read: i by Bevans. the point where me n u come true like a sandwich o will my heart ripple as i float in the night, on the wind like everything is u n I lying there, one, one

 

 

A copy of the text of the blackout poem, without the original text or any illustrations.

Source material: Tinfoil Torso by Ben Evans, illustrated by Torsten Strokirch

 
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