Creativity Cut-Ups

 This is a piece from my University module Creativity 2, it's something we did today and I'm pretty proud of it seeing as it's poetry and I'm usually awful at it. This task was inspired by 'Cut Ups' which was in the documentary we watched about David Bowie (random I know). 'Cut Ups' is when you take a page of text and cut it all up and use interesting sentences to make something new. It is said to be a good source of inspiration. Now, for this we were given photocopied sheets of random pages of books, of which I'd never heard of, and told to cut them up and form a sci-fi poem, this genre choice was influenced Ziggy Stardust, Bowie's alter ego.
So here is my finished result!

The sun had been just rising above the mountain peaks

swift and sudden

with his back against the fallen giant's Gothic ribs

The giant was not just uttering cries

but grimaces of pain

This was the end of the line-

Around the elephantine corpse

two titans were standing

free of most parasites, and

never mentioned former hallucinations

crawled the grim reminder of death or injury

He sobbed and shivered, 

wailed aloud to the empty night

a roar as from a great distance.

The unpopulated shadows grew thicker

cruel and sardonic

The sun had not risen,

he knew that he was dying.