Okay, for my first assignment, given to me by the fabulous Cassie, I offer this poem.

Assignment: Pick a word or phrase at random, let mind play freely around it until a few ideas have come up, then seize on one and begin to write. Try this with a non- connotative word, like "so" etc. (From Bernadette Mayer's Writing Experiments)

nothing rhymes with orange
but things do rhyme with carrot
not that it matters
as carat is just about a small enough
measure to quantify the significance
of my words
by the way, this is my assignment for today
^