POEM - The Confession (A Stephen King cento)

[scottwoods]

This is a poem that took a lot of research to compose, and a lot of care to thread.

It is a cento (a poem comprised entirely of lines from others' work, a pastiche) in which all of the borrowed lines are the first lines of a Stephen King short story, novella or novel. I collected a great many first lines (not every possible one, but close) and then

Comments

[chaptal]

Holy shit dude! They're in there but I do not know how many of the references I can get. Well done.

[scottwoods]

Thanks! I didn't think to count how many made the cut.

[louiserobertson]

Amain

[louiserobertson]

Stupid automatics!

That was supposed to be: Amazing!

[scottwoods]

Thanks!

[swingsatsunset]

i am a hardcore Stephen King fan (i was able to pick out about 85% of the references!) amazing job.

[scottwoods]

Congrats, and thank you!
I'll spend some time and go back and annotate it later. not this weekend, but at some point.
God, I wish King could see this, though. I wonder if HE'D get them all!

[brazencaucasian]

I wrote a Stephen King and a Kurt Vonnegut cento in my college days. I will try to dig those up.

[scottwoods]

Please do! You're awesome and I'd love to see it.