A little disrespect

"Erasure poetry" is taking an existing poem and selectively deleting words from it until a new work is formed. Unethical? Possibly. Illegal? That depends on your base material. Challenging and fun? Yup, yup. Here's what I did to Shelley's sonnet "Ozymandias" -

Man A

A traveller
Two legs
Stand in desert
Half a frown
And wrinkled lip
Well read
Yet lifeless
Mocked heart
These words:
"My name is
...despair!"
Nothing remains
Of that
Far away

I think you'll agree that was truly awful :-) "Ozymandias" seemed an appropriate candidate for partial burial, but even I'm not sure what "Man A" is on about. DGNers are encouraged to submit their undoubtedly superior poetic erasings in the comments section.