Incontrovertible Facts

Incontrovertible Facts
This is a lipogram - a poem written under one of literature's most extreme constraints. Every word excludes the vowels A, E, I, and U, leaving only O. The author has constructed an entire poem while systematically eliminating four of the five vowels from existence. This is not mere trickery. It is a profound meditation on limitation itself: what remains possible when the impossible becomes the only rule. The poem explores factual claims - "incontrovertible facts" - but does so through a linguistic filter that transforms ordinary meaning into something stranger. The absence of vowels creates a rhythm unlike any conventional poem. Words become guttural, compact, almost mathematical in their precision. Reading it feels like solving a puzzle while experiencing genuine poetry. The constraint doesn't just challenge the writer - it transforms the reader's relationship to language itself. This is for anyone who has ever wondered what happens when creativity meets an impossible boundary.
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Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010), icyjumbo (1964-2010), Lee Ann Howlett, Mark F. Smith +1 more





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