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Written for Craig Cornish's 'Golden Shovel' contest.
A form invented by Terrance Hayes called "Golden Shovel", because it borrows words from classic & or previously written poems and incorporates them into your own write. The process is to take a line or lines from the old poem and each word becomes the last word of each line you write and the quantity of words will, therefore, equate to the number of lines in your poem. For example, if the chosen line is "Mary had a lamb", your poem would be 4 lines long with "Mary" ending line one, "had" ending line two etc