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Readers are invited to create up to three rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter that celebrate a modern appliance, convenience or contrivance. A couplet is two lines of poetry; iambic pentameter is a metric scheme in which each line consists of 10 syllables in five "feet" -- primarily iambs (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one), though occasional variations may be introduced.

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The milk, the bread, the yams wrapped tight in foil/All kept from spoiling by your wondrous coils.

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Send your submissions via e-mail only to salon21st@salon.com. Please include your full name and an accurate e-mail address so we can contact you if you're a winner. By submitting your entry you give Salon Technology permission to publish it. Deadline for entries is March 6, 2000.

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The winning response will receive a copy of Salon Technology senior correspondent Andrew Leonard's book, "Bots: The Origin of New Species."

In two weeks we'll publish a winner and some selected entries -- then start over a couple of weeks after that with a whole new challenge.
salon.com | Feb. 26, 2000

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