Second prize winner of the 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

Tell a lot of people
Tofu
Margaux’s going to
Tofu
To to to
Margaux complements me in interesting ways
We do what we can
To tofu
Taboo
Tofu
Tofu
Too mu fu
Too f fu
Tofu
Tofu
Tofu
Off to
For who I am
For who I appear to be
For who who I am.
We are all specks of dirt, earth, people
Tofu
To o blow fu
I know
Tofu
What I can to too much
Touch the soft flesh
Tofu
Try to breathe through
My nose
Throw up
Vomit
Tophu
The vomit was
Tofu
Kiss me
Toghu
Through with it
Sore ass genius
Tophu
To to mo fu
Toghu
To Tofu
And you is you
Tophu
While I’m in heaven.

Erasure poetry begins with removing letters and words from an existing text in order to create a new stand-alone piece that provides new meaning to the original passage. For the 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest, we posted an excerpt from the novel How Should a Person Be? by acclaimed Canadian author Sheila Heti.

The 3rd Erasure Poetry Contest is now underway. Enter today!