BotchuLits For Dummies: A Tutorial

Now even you can compose a BotchuLit, the exciting new three-line verse form created by Windy City sonneteer GFH which is taking America's erudite counties (both of 'em) by storm. Just follow the steps listed below.

 
(1) Select a line or phrase from a well-known work of literature -- prose or poetry, fiction or non-, in English or another language. Any such line or phrase will do, though opening lines are preferred. 
(2) Next, compose an anagram using all the letters of the first line and only them. 
(3) Compose a third line of any length to wrap-up the first two.

(4) Compose an appropriate title.

(5) (Optional) Compose your Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech.

 
Example:

  
(1) Call me Ishmael. (Opening line of Moby Dick)
(2) I.e., Clamshell, Ma. (Anagram on line one) 
(3) And brother Queequeg christen Dingo Egg. (Wrap-up) 

(4) Mother Melville 

The BotchuLit 

 

Mother Melville 

Call me 'Ishmael,'
i.e., 'Clamshell,' Ma...
...and brother Queequeg christen 'Dingo Egg.'