Listicle

The one thing you should never say to someone with OCD

Three easy styles when you don’t have time to blow-dry

Four pieces of priceless advice from the cast of “Orange is the New Black”

Four possible futures for Earth if global warming keeps up

Five things super successful people do before eight AM.

Five things you need to know about NYC’s next possible first lady

Five foods you should never eat again if you’re trying to lose weight

My five golden rules for being a writer on Twitter

Six things your hairstylist wishes she could tell you

Become the CEO of your own brain in six easy steps

Here are seven dog beds your furry friend is going to love

Seven breathtaking sunsets from around the world

Seven reasons To never drink bottled water again

Eight items that will completely transform your wardrobe

Nine questions answered: Impact of government shutdown on travelers

Ten things all singles should celebrate

Ten celebs we never knew would go from child stars to sex symbols!

Ten celebrities who are difficult to work with

Ten gorgeous, energy-efficient homes you’d actually want to live in

Ten past Republicans who’d never make it in today’s GOP

Eleven drinks that are destroying your health

Eleven lessons every woman can learn from Disney princesses

The eleven best universities in the world

Twelve celebrities who say they don’t want children

Thirteen “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” dance moves

Fifteen African American art world game changers

Fifteen perfectly awful ad placements

Fifteen reasons why the world looks better in black and white

Fifteen amazing facts that you didn’t know about unicorns

Seventeen pics that show how much time has changed

Seventeen bizarre sex facts you probably didn’t know

Nineteen things you wish weren’t true but are

Twenty things all women should do before getting married

Twenty-one golden rules from one wise grandmother

Twenty-five best art exhibits to see this fall

Twenty-five pics that will make you say “AWWWWWW”!

WATCH: the fascinating origins of forty-two idioms explained

David Bowie’s seventy-five must-read books

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This is a found poem I wrote by collecting listicles over the last week or so. I limited myself to listcles that appeared in my Facebook or Twitter feeds. I did not read any of the articles. The only changes to the text that I made were making the capital letters of a headline lower case and writing out all numbers. I stopped collecting the headlines when I reached the footer of my word processing program.
I was tempted to add this last listicle I just found when I looked up the wiki link to “listicle,” but it would have meant breaking my rules for the poem, so I give it to you here: “Eleven reasons why we should still love listicles.”

Published by Christine

Christine Swint’s poems have appeared in Calyx, Birmingham Poetry Review, Slant, a Journal of Poetry, Tampa Review, Heron Tree, Ekphrasis, and others. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets, and she has won first place prizes from the Georgia Poetry Society and Agnes Scott College. Her first collection, Swimming This, was published in 2015 by FutureCycle Press. She teaches first-year composition at a metro-Atlanta university and writes about poetry, art, hiking, and yoga at Balanced on the Edge, https://balancedonedge.blog Twitter @christine_swint

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