Today is a distraction from story writing.

Here’s a stream-of-consciousness pantoum for you.

If you don’t remember, the pantoum has a repeating structure of four-line stanzas. The 2nd and 4th lines of a stanza become the 1st and 3rd of the following stanza.

The last stanza is the 2nd line from the previous, 4th line of the previous, 3rd line of the first, and either the 1st or last line of the first. Now that that’s clear, forget it and read…     

The Man in the Navy Suit

The car pulled up at dawn

He knocked on the front door

He knocked and knocked

The man in the navy suit did

.   .   .

He knocked on the front door

Death is here he announced

The man in the navy suit did

Go away she said

.   .   .

Death is here he announced

He knocked and knocked

Go away she said

The man in the navy suit did

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