random_poem_generator raze this is kind of neat. makes me think of something we might have found (or one of us with coding skills might have made) way back when. the first poem it gave me: "she swings off the wide-eyed joke despite the red raindrop shrilly the luminous importance speaks the black nightmare serves anyone individualizes fondly from the precious havoc" you can try it here: http://www.misselhornmedia.com/verbasizer/verbasizer.php 151103 ... epitome of incomprehensibility This made me smile, not so much for the process (I guess I'd like a little bit of input before the coding does its job, but that kind of defeats the purpose of "randomly generated," doesn't it?) but for the text they have on their page. Oh, okay, "my" poem first: "above the serpent much kneels beyond the permission some practice from the blazing corpse against the long stranger" It's a sexy Halloween poem. (Somehow sexy, somehow Halloween. Now life is November and barren. Dry twigs scrape against abstractions. All is obtuse, obscure, opaque.) Uh-oh. Their poetry germ is coding/coating my mind. Generation. The seed of Logos. OK, yes, what I found funny: "please complete the form below to send a copy of your poem via email to your friends. they will think you are so artistic/sleep deprived/high! use commas to separate email addrii. the emails you enter are used for nothing else." I think it's the exclamation mark after "high" - that or the pluralization of the word address. Either way that bit of text made me irrationally happy. 151103 ... e_o_i ...or it's the idea of sending random poems to friends, as if that's perfectly normal. The new normal. My parents just arrived with a car. Possibly they bought it. That's frightening. 151103 ... e_o_i Oh, okay, someone else drove them. The car has disappeared. But they were seeing about buying another car. (Talk about easily distracted. Just pretend this is another poem and completely symbolic.) 151103 ... unhinged i am laying on my futon smoking weed watching hip hop videos on youtube and it makes this one for me: near the tender pistol all pay roughly you cut either rises 151103 ... amy in red Totally assholingly me: frantically around the heaven this wins I exact following the white-hot teeth Let's be frightened of computers, demigods in machines. Know it alls. Bleaters. Biggest guilt-trippers. Trippers in general. Vampiric out of body ghost receipters. Wanna be allies. Karma police. Creeeepy. Love, live and let live, duh, mind your own business, desperation at least has a name. El Desperado the code for expression neglecting communication? If no one will trade ever it becomes pathetic, it deepens, the winners are not nice and cause a problem the person must change, even die first, the answer of course is adaptability. Change or die throw it all away. This wins, honey. Yes this poem does describe how i feel about life. Also reminds me to apologize for my need for kindness, not cruelty, and that time in Mexico. Cortez did you have a need as well or was your entry pure unholy enterprise and the innocent shoulda known better and lived. (I will not let this 'puter outdo me, ha ha). Life sucks. That's all that says with a bit of description. A rumination becomes a whirlwind fearing the schadenfreudists. Oh breathe in the harm of this breathe out love. Taunting could be venting, friends. Except no receipt of complaint, no harm to others, no abuse actually this poem is a fascist. Now i end a comment on it, and i wish it were not so- blah. sorry i called you names, random poem generator.... 151104 ... raze it still works: the deceitful sanctuary presents over the investigation almost awkwardly from the dune after the medicine 210817 ... raze some reaches everybody celebrates down the watery kidnapping everybody withdraws the breathing independence quits gracefully 220921 ... raze to the war those leads few fits against the new heart gracefully the omnipresent sound dispels near the voodoo someone declares into the temper inside the handsome coverage after the riot 220926 ... raze everybody waves from the dizzy urge this strikes cheerfully 230105 ... raze theirs alleviates in the book round the memory the dizzy havoc feels blue message watches tightly something strikes outside the earthquake towards the temper the pretty picture goes without the deceitful criminal the quick correlation hinders beyond the effect whatever dances among the eternal malice you plead 230303 ... raze everyone plays up the ugliest correlation recklessly after the broken hell 230322 ... raze long stress decomposes sadly through the ugliest desert yours incinerates at the strange experiment the ordinary reputation promotes aboard the daydream 230405 ... raze the enlightened evidence begins underneath the horrible jealousy near the rabid advantage red comment dances wide-eyed credulity rings theirs buys amid the dizzy advantage 230420 ... raze this one feels pretty prescient right about now: few suggests inside the deceitful fight of the brain dull pressure creates 230424 ... raze new hatred sails behind the evil time the secret success dispels brightly all tells we celebrate with the tame blame no one hides round the clever piano 230708 ... raze beneath the distant memory beside the dream somebody sleeps inquisitively much leads the white-hot eye persists with the cemetery either sleeps 230714 ... raze from the conflict the forgotten impression swallows swiftly towards the intensity despite the spirit everyone buys joyously yours falls happily 230725 ... raze with the red music recklessly below the medicine like the lust the odd knowledge forgets the ugliest cave receives 230815 ... raze softly unlike the tough sanctuary elegantly along the tough criminal much completes tame limit runs suddenly the dying spirit develops with the purple star something represents the watery permission between the rainy devil 230829 ... raze coal-black obstacle carves along the abyss in the precious comparison the ugliest conflict celebrates the tame way picks everything misconstrues for the aged advantage 230917 ... raze "they" decomposes carefully the wasteful permission tells neither surpasses joyously amid the wide-eyed summit the blazing claim commands the ordinary consequence stops over the poverty each gains about the punishment crazy lays 231015 ... raze those swallows badly the illuminated priest shakes several wrings sadly 231116 ... raze the broken murder misconstrues off the old malice rotted immortality controls the faded cold shines beyond the sad black hole 231215 ... raze the flower the great joke lights deliberately each comes 240124 ... raze he ceases about the blue music the nasty issue draws loudly amid the new child one plays happily the crazy hatred achieves their means about the issue collapsing heaven completes the distant war pays 240224 ... raze smoking responsibility gets to the broken tundra underneath the pistol bad serpent advances opposite the spiraling condition the broken earthquake begins another reiterates recklessly outside the cell 240406 ... raze warmly something places the crazy injury races at the distant moon it enters 240424 ... raze kindly the collapsing crime changes without the weapon versus the light deliberately 240511 ... raze sharply beneath the horrible dune the aged independence sits within the deceitful importance clearly 240529 what's it to you? who go blather from