Facebook Poetry
April 5, 2011 3 Comments
My latest means of amusing myself.
If you crib people’s status updates, correcting their text-speak for real English, and then put line breaks in the appropriate places you can turn them into poetry.
Today’s example :
The Building Site
Building works across the road,
Are starting to drive me mad.
All I can hear is
Bang bang bang bang bang
About PodRED
Steel soap.
I was dubious.
but
it’s
surprisingly
AWESOME!
(of course, you’d have to buy one first.)
——
… am I doing it right?
Uh-oh. Hoist by my own petard
That’s pretty much the idea. It can take some trawling to find good ones, but it’s totally worth it when you do. The right length and cadence is important.
I am such a nerd.
I tried to reverse-engineer this, but the results were remarkably cheesy and/or emo.