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No, I haven't become a poet and don't knoet. It's just two results of running my blog through this poetry generator. It's got some kind of randomizer in it, so it never gives the same results twice, even with the same content. As you can see, and Matt Welch says, it can "barf up" frightening results. I should note that the titles are mine. Anyway, it certainly leaves a little to be desired in the meter department...

It's a tragic result of a Perl programmer with too much time on his hands.

As great as these are, however, my favorite remains that Perl classic, Black Perl (updated version, ported to compile on Perl 5 (and tested on 5.6)). A Perl 6 port still awaits, for those whose lives are otherwise pointless.

# Black Perl, adapted for Perl 5 by Jonadab.
# Adapted from Black Perl, as seen in the Camel,
# 2nd ed., p 553

BEFOREHAND: close door, each window & exit; wait until time;
   open spell book; study; read (spell, $scan, select); tell us;
write it, print the hex while each watches,
   reverse length, write again;
       kill spiders, pop them, chop, split, kill them.
         unlink arms, shift, wait and listen (listening, wait).
sort the flock (then, warn "the goats", kill "the sheep");
   kill them, dump qualms, shift moralities,
     values aside, each one;
       die sheep; die (to, reverse the => system
         you accept (reject, respect));
next step,
   kill next sacrifice, each sacrifice,
     wait, redo ritual until "all the spirits are pleased";
   do it ("as they say").
do it(*everyone***must***participate***in***forbidden**s*e*x*).
return last victim; package body;
   exit crypt (time, times & "half a time") & close it.
     select (quickly) and warn next victim;
AFTERWARDS: tell nobody.
   wait, wait until time;
      wait until next year, next decade;
         sleep, sleep, die yourself,
            die @last

As they say, it compiles, but (blessedly) at least for now, doesn't do anything. Just to be safe, I wouldn't try chanting it at midnight, though.

Random Saturday Spaceshots, eh?

Hmmm...the John Cage Blog. Now there's a concept.

For those who don't know, Cage was a composer who, using various methods, composed "music" consisting of purely random notes. If they ever do a movie about him and use his compositions for the soundtrack, I'm not going.

Jeebus! And to think I struggled through pages of this kind of stuff over at Poets Against The War. I could have just fed some NYT articles into the hopper.

I (humbly) offer the same advice to that Perl diver...

O poets of peace so hostile to all wars!
Read piece by piece a dull misgiving grows
That rhythm dead?-no try at versed door?s
Not poetry at all but hapless prose.
Transfigure your idea! For rhyme and scan
Be servant to your crux, if you would teach.
As brilliant strike transfixes jumbled land
So measured pitch stands from a yawp and screech.
Restraint and focus best sustain your way
To realize true poets ends, bards know.
Say no? Your rampant feeling claims your say?
Fling wide then passion?s throat for outburst flow.
   Yet think, spawn of McKuen and the rest
   That vomit from a drunk is so express?d.

Anybody up for some Vogon poetry?