Aye, there's the rub; Geist creates erasure poetry contest

Geist magazine of Vancouver has come up with a wacky new subscription promotion -- the Geiste Erasure Poetry contest. In it, a passage from Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the Bush is copied. Without changing the order of the words, but erasing as they will, entrants (who pay $20 -- which includes a one-year sub)  are to create a poem out of the passage. There is no word limit. The winner gets