Middlebrow and I were rummaging in the library at work today and found this gem. It is actually by someone I have met who now runs the Utah Writing Project. It is from a 1973 textbook called Sentence Combining. At the time sentence combining was all the rage in teaching writing, and was supposed to improve students' intellectual capacity by helping them to learn to build complex sentences. I suppose the theory has some merit, but it was based on linguistic theories that writing teachers may or may not have understood very well. Ultimately methods like sentence combining were abandoned by the field and only diehard hippies use it now. Middlebrow and I read it outloud, and found "Rock Concert" quite poetic. I especially like the couplet "His voice was a garble./The garble was loud."