The restlessness of the people The elegant city Along with the formless game of our nervous and sporadic games I admired the gardens And the pale gold odor of the kiss-me-at-the-gate It certainly was lovely And I, a beautiful little fool Hadn’t ceased looking The astounding presence And his well-loved eyes And we danced while the church bells rang in the village alongshore The world and its mistress Twinkled hilariously on the lawn And living an illusion never felt so extraordinary
This was an english assignment: write a "found poem" (a poem created from lines from a book) using The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald