The Elementary Quinoa-grain is a poetic form, originating in The Race of Speech. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. Use of assonance, ambiguity and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. Every line of the poem has an initial caesura. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme. The third line of the tercet shares the underlying meaning of the second line. The first line is light and intended to describe the past. It has six syllables. The second line is dramatic and intended to offer a different perspective concerning current events. It has eight syllables. The third line is ribald and intended to offer a different perspective concerning the future. It has seven syllables.