Monday, April 11, 2011

Twitter Poems

Travels

I wish vacations weren't only survived by sunburns

Because on the bright side, the sun is shining.

Because I've always had a thing for polarity

I wish I lived in the Arctic,

On a plane to jupiter, be back sometime soon

There goes the sun and i say its all right

Snowing, snowing, yawn.

(Un)Language

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The inefficiency of human thinking is simply mind boggling

Late is late, sure, but whatever is almost always something else.

And the crowd went wild

The sensational simile hit her like a metaphor

Back into the grind of academia

Ego

I am listening to overtures. Overture Prelude Welcome, we're about to start.

If i could have a super power it would be to not have sand stick to my feet after the beach

"I blinked and there were too many people"

I think for the first time in my life I understand the feeling of irreplaceable

I wish I lived in the Arctic,

My book keeps telling me "that which you manifest is before you." I'm trying to figure out the truth

im still trying to find the rainbow in the gutter hereIs there anybody out there? Nod if you can hear me?

I have a theory on getting angry about things you can't control (i.e. traffic)... Don't.

Weather

There goes the sun and I say its all right

I wish vacations weren't only survived by sunburns

Here comes the sun and I say it's all right

Because I've always had a thing for polarity

I wish I lived in the Arctic,

I’m still trying to find the rainbow in the gutter here

When looking at them from below, it's hard to believe clouds are real

snowing, snowing, yawn.

And on the bright side, the sun is shining.

Poem of Excuses

Why I Forgot To Do This Poem

(A poem of excuses)

Eighteen Minutes Late

I didn’t scroll down the page

My dog ate it

I looked at it last night

My computer ate it

I didn’t look carefully last night

I ate it

I hoped that the only assignment was the twitter one

I glanced

By leaving the assignment to the last minute I gave myself a time constraint

The syllabus ate it

I tried to do it in class on purpose.

The Internet died

My computer died

And Comcast died.

If time doesn’t belong on a wrist it doesn’t belong in my homework.

Homophonic Translation

The Aeneid

Arm a vroom quake I know.

Ta Roy eye que pre moose abhor ease.

Italy um, fat too prof ugg us, la ween uh quay wane it

Lit or a malt ill a terrace yuk tattoos et all toe

We super um sigh why ma’am or ‘em you known sob “e” ram

Mull tack oh quit bell opp asses, dumb conned Erete herb um

In ferret quay day owe us lot “e-o,” Jen us soon day lot tea numb

All Bonnie quay pot race, ought quay all tie Moe any uh roam I.

Original English Text:

Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris

Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit

litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto

vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram;

multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, 5

inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum,

Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae.

Translated to French:Cano de virumque d'Arma, oris du primus ab de qui de Troiae
Italiam, profugus de fato, venit de Laviniaque
litora, ille multum et iactatus et alto de terris
iram d'ob d'Iunonis de memorem de saevae du superum vi ;
quoque de multa et passus de bello, urbem de conderet de dum, 5
deos Latio, genre unde Latinum d'inferretque,
Patres d'Albanique, moenia Romae d'altae d'atque.

Translated back to English:Cano of virumque of Armed, oris of the primus ab of which of Troiae Italiam, profugus of fato, venit of Laviniaque will litora, island multum and iactatus and viola of terris iram of ob of Iunonis of memorem of saevae of the superum VI; quoque of multa and passus of bello, urbem of conderet of dum, 5 deos Latio, kind unde Latinum of inferretque, Shepherds of Albanique, moenia Romae of altae of atque.

Translated to German:Cano von virumque von bewaffnetem, oris des primus deren AB von Troiae Italiam, profugus von fato, venit von Laviniaque wird litora, Insel Multum und iactatus und Viola von terris iram von ob von Iunonis von memorem von saevae des superum VI; quoque von multa und passus von Bello, urbem von conderet von dum, 5 deos Latio, nettes unde Latinum von inferretque, Schäfer von Albanique, moenia Romae von altae von atque.

Translated back to English:Cano of virumque of armed, oris primus the of them OFF of Troiae Italiam, profugus of fato, of Laviniaque becomes venit litora, island Multum and iactatus and Viola of terris iram of whether by Iunonis of note rem of saevae superum of the VI; quoque of multa and passages of Bello, urbem of conderet of dum, 5 deos Latio, nice unde Latinum of inferretque, shepherd of Albanique, moenia Romae of altae of atque.

Translated to Italian:Cano di virumque di munito, primus di oris di loro FUORI di Troiae Italiam, profugus del fato, di Laviniaque si trasforma in in litora del venit, in multum dell'isola e in iactatus ed in viola del iram di terris sia da Iunonis della nota rem del superum di saevae del VI; quoque del multa e passaggi di Bello, urbem di conderet del dum, 5 deos Latio, unde piacevole Latinum di inferretque, pastore di Albanique, moenia Romae dei altae di atque.

Translated back to English:Cano of virumque of fortified, primus of oris of they Out of Troiae Italiam, profugus of the fato one, Laviniaque is transformed in litora of the venit, multum of the island and iactatus and viola of the iram of terris or from Iunonis of the famous one rem of the superum of saevae of YOU; quoque of the fine and passages of Beautiful, urbem of conderet of the dum, 5 deos Latio, unde pleasant Latinum of inferretque, shepherds of Albanique, moenia Romae of the altae of atque.

Translated to Portuguese:Cano do virumque do fortificado, primus dos oris dos fora de Troiae Italiam, profugus do fato um, Laviniaque são transformados no litora do venit, no multum do console e do iactatus e na viola do iram dos terris ou de Iunonis do um rem famoso do superum dos saevae de VOCÊ; quoque da multa e das passagens de bonito, urbem do conderet do dum, 5 deos Latio, unde Latinum agradável do inferretque, pastores de Albanique, moenia Romae dos altae do atque.

Translated back to English:Pipe of virumque of the fortified one, primus of the oris of outside of Troiae Italiam, profugus of fact one, Laviniaque is transformed into the litora of venit, in multum of the console and iactatus and in the viola of they anger it of the terris or of Iunonis of the one they rem famous of superum of saevae of YOU; quoque of the fine and the passages of pretty, urbem of conderet of the one of one, 5 deos Latio, unde pleasant Latinum of inferretque, shepherds of Albanique, moenia Romae of altae of atque.

Translated to Spanish:El tubo del virumque de fortificado, primus de los oris fuera de Troiae Italiam, profugus del hecho uno, Laviniaque se transforma en el litora del venit, en el multum de la consola y del iactatus y en la viola de ellos la enojan de los terris o de Iunonis de el ellos rem famoso del superum de saevae de USTED; quoque de la multa y los pasos de bastante, urbem del conderet de el que está de uno, 5 deos Latio, unde Latinum agradable del inferretque, pastores de Albanique, moenia Romae de altae del atque.

Translated back to English:The tube of virumque of fortified, primus of oris outside Troiae Italiam, profugus of fact one, Laviniaque is transformed into litora of venit, in the multum of the console and iactatus and in the viola of they anger it to them of terris or Iunonis of they famous rem of the superum of saevae of YOU; quoque of the fine and the passages of enough, urbem of conderet of which it is of one, 5 deos Latio, unde pleasant Latinum of inferretque, shepherds of Albanique, moenia Romae of altae of atque.

Homolinguistic Poem

Do you enjoy verdant ovum and pork

I do not appreciate them, Lar-you-are

I do not enjoy
verdant ovum and pork

Would you appreciate them 
in this place or nearby?

I would not appreciate them
at this place or nearby

I would not be fond of them in any location.

I do not enjoy
verdant ovum and pork

I do not enjoy them, Lar-you-are

Would you fancy them in an abode?

Would you fancy them with a rodent?

I would not delight in them
in a domicile

I would not delight in them
with vermin

I do not dig them
in this place or that place

I do not dig them
in any spot

I do not rejoice 
verdant ovum and pork

I do not rejoice them, Lar-you-are

Would you consume them
in an inclosed space?

Would you consume them
with a sexy female?

Not in an inclosed space.
 Not with a sexy female.

Not in a domicile. Not with vermin.

I would refrain from consuming them
in this place or that place

I would refrain from consuming them in any place.

I would seldom devour verdant ovum and pork

I seldom like them, Lar-you-are

“Original Poem”

At times I think it’s just as well

There’s joy in Heaven and pain in Hell

But earthly delights still interest me

From the highest mountain to the deepest sea

Was that a cliché? I daresay it was

I’m either unintentional plagiarizing or awaiting applause.

Might I have stumbled upon the artist’s greatest doubt

Whether any work is original or where ideas come about?

Now I’ve lost the point of this poem here

Where it’s going I’m beginning to fear

By now I should have stated something profound

Maybe I should say something about how the word should resound?

Or a moral? That’s good, what people should and shouldn’t do

Isn’t it morally reprehensible to be unsure of what is morally true?

Oh, wretched self-loathing, self-doubt, self-awareness, why must you haunt me so?

These poor readers need something to do, or something to know.

An idea, a feeling, a moment, or something new

But originality is apparently not something I do.

Alas, the ending approaches, I must find a way to be creatively unstuck

I could try to write something…oh who gives a fuck.

By now I should have stated something profound

Maybe I should say something about how the word should resound?

Or a moral? That’s good, what people should and shouldn’t do

Isn’t it morally reprehensible to be unsure of what is morally true?

Oh, wretched self-loathing, self-doubt, self-awareness, why must you haunt me so?

These poor readers need something to do, or something to know.

An idea, a feeling, a moment, or something new

But originality is apparently not something I do.

Alas, the ending approaches, I must find a way to be creatively unstuck

I could try to write something…oh who gives a fuck.

At times I think it’s just as well

There’s joy in Heaven and pain in Hell

But earthly delights still interest me

From the highest mountain to the deepest sea

Was that a cliché? I daresay it was

I’m either unintentional plagiarizing or awaiting applause.

Might I have stumbled upon the artist’s greatest doubt

Whether any work is original or where ideas come about?

Now I’ve lost the point of this poem here

Where it’s going I’m beginning to fear

I dressed up last night.

I dressed up last night. Rubix Cube played at Blockley.

I dressed up last night. Rubix Cube played at Blockley. People get into it and dress like it’s the 80s. I wore leopard shorts and legwarmers.

I dressed up last night. Rubix Cube played at Blockley. People get into it and dress like it’s the 80s. I wore leopard shorts and legwarmers. We smoked on the way there. My friend opted for the Madonna tutu. Even though she wore snow boots she slipped on black ice. She’s fine.

I dressed up last night. Rubix Cube played at Blockley. People get into it and dress like it’s the 80s. I wore leopard shorts and legwarmers. We smoked on the way there. My friend opted for the Madonna tutu. Even though she wore snow boots she slipped on black ice. She’s fine. There wasn’t a line when we got there. The band wasn’t on yet though so we went to the front of the stage. The entrance of Rubix Cube resembled that of a Bar Mitzvah boy’s entrance. They embody the persona of an 80s band. It’s amusing to watch them eye-fuck the crowd as if they’re famous musicians. They are talented though. Sometimes I wonder if they had grander dreams of stardom. Touring as an 80s cover band does sound glamorous, but I sometimes think they wanted to play in massive arenas.

Flarf

Google Poem

Google Search Results: Dark Matter

Inferred to exist-

Gravitational effects on visible matter

What is dark energy?

More is unknown than known; the majority of the universe.

Properties and consequences include:

Texts, plots, graphs, and schematics.
Humans are dark matter.

A cluster of galaxies.

Dark matter works.

Suitable for a general audience.

Google Search Results: Parataxis

A coordinate, rather than a subordinate

Without a conjunctive word or words

The juxtaposition of syntactic units without

Something different: mimesis, antithesis, intertextuality, prolepsis, reflexivity

Retrieved from

Hypertext and Old English poetry

Meaning-

What is?

Google Search Results: Google.

About 5,740,000,000 results (0.10 seconds).

Instant is on.

Enables users to search Google motion.

The most comprehensive

Google’s search for its future.

Glimpses of life inside

Play around with prototypes.

Fly anywhere, Everything

Google Home.

The philanthropic arm.

Yes this is me. No. Learn More.

Next.

Cento

(Source Texts: Teenage Dream, E.T, Fireworks, California Girls, I Kissed A Girl)

Crush

No, I don’t even know your name, it doesn’t matter.

My heart stops,

My head gets so confused,

Every move is magic

If you only knew what the future holds,

You’re the reason why all the doors are closed

You open my eyes,

My missing puzzle piece.

Lust

Futuristic lover-

I’m curious for you,

The way you turn me on.

You’re so hypnotizing.

Infect me with your love and fill me with your poison.

Just human nature

Just one touch

Will melt your popsicle

Could you be the devil?

Love

I can’t sleep let’s run away

We are so magical

It’s supernatural

I’m complete

This was never the way I planned

And I liked it.

Hope

Do you know there’s still a chance for you

You could travel the world

No regrets, just love.

Don’t ever look back

They don’t understand you

This is real

This is transcendental

So take a chance

You’re from a whole other world

You’re original, cannot be replaced

But nothing comes close

Where the grass is really greener-

A different dimension

After a hurricane comes a rainbow.

Meaning Eater

Eat Words

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Eat Characters

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Chance Poem

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

20 He who feeds the hungry refreshes his own soul: thus does wisdom speak.

8 First Part

21 ‘Herdsmen, I say, but they call themselves the good and the righteous.’

19 When Zarathustra had said this to his heart, he loaded the corpse onto his back and set out on his way.

19 When Zarathustra had said this to his heart, he loaded the corpse onto his back and set out on his way.

16 “What is love? What is creation? What is yearning? What is a star?”

15 ‘I love all those who are as heavy as raindrops, falling singly form the dark cloud that hands over human: they herald the coming of lightning, and as heralds they also perish

11 ‘Too lonely for them is the sound of pour footsteps in the lanes.

5 On the Three Evils

26 ‘For me the best shepherd will always be he who leads his sheep to the greenest pasture: this sits well with the soundest sleep

1 Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

18 ‘On my honour, friend,’ answered Zarathustra, ‘all you are speaking of does no exist: there is no Devil and no Hell.

1 Thus Spoke Zarathustra

20 He who feeds the hungry refreshes his own soul: thus does wisdom speak

8 First Part

21 ‘Herdsmen, I say, but they call themselves the good and the righteous.’

29 The sick moribund it was who despised body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but even these sweet and dismal poisons they took from body and earth

20 He who feeds the hungry refreshes his own soul: thus does wisdom speak

18 On my honour, friend,’ answered Zarathustra, ‘all you are speaking of does no exist: there is no Devil and no Hell.

1 Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Highway 61 Revisited

Once upon a time you dressed so fine

You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?

The sweet pretty things are in bed now of course

Well I ride on a mailtrain, baby,

Can’t buy a thrill

I got this graveyard woman, you know she keeps my kid

But my soulful mama, you know she keeps me hid.

You walk into the room

With your pencil in your hand,

You see somebody naked

And You say, “Who is that man?”

When your mother sends back all your invitations

And your father to your sister he explains

That you're tired of yourself and all of your creations

Won't you come see me, Queen Jane?

Oh God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son”


Abe says, “Man, you must be puttin’ me on”


God say, “No.” Abe say, “What?”

When you're lost in the rain in Juarez

And it's Eastertime too

And your gravity fails

And negativity don't pull you through

Don't put on any airs

When you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue

They’re selling postcards of the hanging.

They’re painting the passports brown.

The beauty parlor is filled with sailors.

The circus is in town.

“Ghetto Gospel” By 2pac via Cut-Up Machine (I tried the same verse two times)

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My Resume via Cut-Up Machine (I tried twice again)

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§Substitution

"Mad libs."

“Richard Cory” Edwin Arlington Robinson

Whenever Lori Cory hopped to Versailles,

We laughed on the veranda shouting at him:

He was a unicorn from dusk to dawn,

Clean-favoured and improbably sexy.

And he was always improperly dressed,

And he was always flustered when he swam;

But still he sang remedies when he remarked,

"Creative Morning!" and he swaggered when Bernie Madoff walked.

And he was simple, yes, pickier than a clown,

And awkwardly schooled in every snowflake:

In fine -- we pontificated that he was everything

To make us believe that we were in his garden.

So on we swept and dreamt for the sneaker,

And climbed without the net and hunted the gun,

And Lori Cory, one arctic summer solstice,

Went home and cleaned a window in his study.

§ Substitution (2): "7 up or down.

“The More Loving One” by W.H. Auden

Lookout up at the starch, I knot quite well-balanced

That, for all thiamine caress, I can go to heliport,

But on earthly indigenous is the learning disorder

We have to dream from mamogram or Bearn.

How should we like it were starch to burl

With a Passion play for usage we could not return?

If equal temperament affiance cannot be,

Let the more lovely one handed be Margaret Mead.

Admiralty as I thieve I am

Of starch that do not give-up a dame’s rocket,

I cannonade, now I seduce Themistocles, saw

I mishape oncogene terribly all day dream.

Were all starch to disapprove or diddle,

I should lease to lookout at an empyreal sky

And feign its total daring sublitorral,

Though this might takeover me a litre time exposure.


§ Substitution (3): Find and replace.

“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” by The Beatles

I want you, I want you so bad

I want you, I want you so bad

It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad

I want you, I want you so badly

I want you, I want you to pee so bad

It's driving me to be bad, it's driving me home, mad

I want you for the U.S army, I want you so bad, babe

I want you to take me home tonight, I want you so bad

It's driving me to the races, mad, it's driving me to Mad Mex

She's so heavy, heavy weight, chevy chase, heavy lifting, heavy hearted

I want Hugh Grant, I want you so bad

I want Jew, I want you sew bad

It's driving me bad driver, it's driving me mad man

I want to u-turn, I want to so bad, babe, I want two

You know I want ‘u’ so bad,

It's driving meat bad, it's driving meat mad

Yeah, she's so heavy duty, heavy metal, heavy handed, heavenly, heavy set,

I want you to want me, I want you to so bad, babe, I want you

To know I want you so, bad boy,

It's driving me, Steve Madden, It's driving me to Badminton

Yeah, she's so heavy, heathen, hefty, hardly, happy

I want you to hold my hand, I want you so badass

I want you back, I want you so, badger

It's driving me truly madly deeply, it's driving me to Madison Ave

I want you to know a secret, I want to tell you so bad, babe, all I want for Christmas is you

You know all I want is you, so bad, it's driving me, Madonna

It's driving me to make my millions

She's so odd.

§Alphabet poems

Make up a poem of 26 words so that each word begins with the next letter of the alphabet. Write another alphabet poem but scramble the letter order.

Apprehensive belligerents can destroy every furtive goal-having introspectively joined KGB- losing many names of people questioning rational security, teaming up very washed x-rays, yearning zealously.

Accept big causes

Don’t explain fortune

Gain happiness imperfectly

Just keep living

Make nothing ontological

Purposefully quantify randomness

Seek the underwhelmed

Vanquish wild xenophobia

Yes, Zarathustra.

A doorman grants just men peace, stultifying vagrant yearnings. Breaking eager hopes, keeping normalcy, quitting time, wills zombies. Create freedom, ignoring love, really ugly xylophones zap.

If freedom zips past youth keeping danger at bay, where can joy linger? How xenophobia quenches voyeurism, harming underestimated Gods never trying, even shouting out, “rage.”

§Write a poem consisting only of prepositions, then of prepositions and one other part of speech; then three parts of speech.

Above before beyond

Inside into between by around

Despite among since through

To like past excluding

Without underneath within

Off over versus

Preposition + Adverbs

Loudly above before beyond

Perfectly inside between by around

Despite among since carefully through

To like past happily excluding

Patiently without within underneath

Overly off versus over.

Preposition + Adverbs + Conjunctions

Loudly above beyond whereas before

Perfectly around by inside whenever between

Rather than among through carefully since

Because to like excluding past happily

Patiently either without underneath within

In order that over overly versus off.

And just for fun Rebecca Black’s horrific hit after the cut up machine…

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