Comments on: found poetry

By: Josh Millard

Josh Millard — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:32:10 +0000

Ha! Thanks, fellow Josh. That poetry generator is faboo.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:19:20 +0000

I've had a random bad poetry generator at my site for ages, using a markov chain perl script and an input corpus of a whole bunch of poems submitted by kids to a website I worked for in the late 90s: I Am, by The Aggregate Kid I love Garkov, by the way.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:56:29 +0000

I like what you have done with it. But is it art? Well, I am inspired so it must be. :)

By: Josh Millard

Josh Millard — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:46:23 +0000

Touche, John.

By: John H.

John H. — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:17:06 +0000

Shouldn’t it be “The cummingsesque Gambit”, with a lowercase ‘c’?

By: language hat

language hat — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:41:00 +0000

More precisely, it reads like someone trying to be “wild” and “imaginative” and perhaps “poetic” as well; you see this kind of thing in MeFi comments all the time, apparently in an effort to garner favorites and in imitation of those who are born to it and do it well (e.g., loquacious).