Tortured Wealth / Precious Music

an exquisite corpse using words from the story of Midas 
in Stanley Lombardo's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses

by AVERY TAYLOR


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Fatal
God 
Played 
Rustic
 Lyre


Golden 
Stars 
Mingled 
Gentle
Water

Some other combinations:

Great 
Music 
Slighted 
Old 
Pipes

Glistening 
Earth 
Despised 
Ancient 
Water

Dull-witted 
Deity 
Charmed 
Gentle 
Wealth

Golden 
Peasants 
Rescinded 
Ripe 
Wine

Elaborate 
Garden 
Mingled 
Youthful 
River

Precious 
Stars 
Gleamed on 
Potent 
Stream

Pastoral 
Harvest 
Tortured 
Hollow 
King