Tuesday, December 14, 2004
(6:43 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Blog Poetry
I am a great lover of magnetic fridge poetry, though like all owners of a fridge poetry set, I do not use it nearly enough. I find that I am able to create the most beautiful verse when limited to the magnetic little words -- the other night, for instance, I wrote a four-line poem that ended something like, "the world is sustained by a gentle lie."This brings me to the title of my post: blog poetry. My suggestion is to open up a browser window to a popular, link-heavy site, such as Instapundit, and write poetry using only the words that appear on screen at any one time -- no scrolling. Here's a few lines using Instapundit (Right now, the top post is "RACHEL LUCAS IS BACK. And she's pissed"):
Strengthen America's wry growth in porn:I figure that we could all do this constantly for the next couple days, then gradually lose interest and never pay attention to Instapundit again.
Linking economy and subtlety,
Reading impossible short satire,
Talking big English on a second technology --
in time, the big thing is created.
