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On univocalisms - Slinky Crisps

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Another day, another univocalism!   I'm currently working on a project with a lovely group of excellent writers, creating a bunch of univocalisms, for publication in a little Zine. In case you don't know, a univocalism is a piece of contrained writing, where you're only allowed to use one of the five vowels. So, if you do an O univocalism, you're not allowed to use the letters A, E, I, or U, and if you do an A univocalism, you're not allowed to use the letters E, I, O, or U.  It's a really tricky poetry challenge, but I love it because it gives you the chance get out of a writing rut, and create pieces that you'd never write otherwise! Here's my first go at an I univocalism. Give it a look! (Content note for weird crisp fetishes!)  Slinky Crisps   It’s in district six: dim, slinky digs. Thick mist swirls, fills Tim’s ribs. Tim’s skin pricks.   This is Tim’s big wish:   this inn’s lit: Tim’s spying by dirty ‘sills spying girls with fizzy drinks, binging...