True power found in blackout poetry

Blackout poetry. It’s the latest.

Okay. Maybe it’s not absolutely the newest genre in all things non-prose just because I’d never heard about it. I don’t keep up.

If you’re equally clueless, here’s how blackout poetry works:

Take a page from a magazine or newspaper—like maybe this one—and a broad-tipped marker. Black out the words you don’t want. What’s left is blackout poetry.

No, I haven’t tried it.…