Thursday 25 August 2011

Acrostic (diagonal)

each of the 24 lines has 24 characters. 1st letter of 1st line, 2nd letter of 2nd line etc. spells the key words

SIN REVELATION FORGIVENESS
1    ‘Share out your wealth with me,’
2    hIs brash boy demands. Concur.
3    SoN took the cash; spent it all
4    on dRinking and prostitutes.
5    O so vEry quickly, he was broke.
6    One seVere famine struck the
7    whole rEgion. Deserted by all
8    ex-so-calLed friends, he made a
9    plan: take A job on a pig farm. He
10  longed to sTuff himself, just
11  like those pIgs, with the pods…
12  Suddenly recOgnising utter
13  disasters, he uNderstands he
14  might go home to Father’s farm,
15  not asking for a sOn’s welcome
16  ‘The truth? I am unwoRthy.’ While
17  his boy was yet a lonG walk off,
18  the farmer saw him. ‘He Is alive!’
19  Demonstrating his loVe - gave
20  him a hug, a coat, some shoEs and
21  one ring to wear on his fiNger.
22  ‘Partying with many of my nExt
23  door neighbours; my son was So
24  dead but now he’s alive! CheerS!’

acknowledgements to Perec's Life: A User's Guide chapter 51

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