Tuesday, March 13, 2012

a nod to OULIPO

We’re crooning nightly,
Renewing thorny logic,
Cheerily noting wrong.


Coiling energy, thrown.
Wrongly enticing hero,
Ongoing wintry lecher,


Reigning theory clown,
Whining electron orgy
Growing incoherently.

    -every line is a working anagram of newt gingrich's full name

      Steve Shaviro

5 comments:

  1. This is almost too good to be true. It's tempting to try it with the others...

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  2. i hope rabbi shaviro don't mind me adjustin' his poem here to a series of three triplets rahter than two quatrains

    can't hep maseff

    what?
    are you going to run those names through a
    computer word letter mis-up program cycle

    hell i suppose by now there is such a thing
    a man doesn't even have to think that much any more
    now that smart machines do so much

    willard mitt romney ... hmnh let's see


    now timid rat really...
    rare tall mown ditty

    jh

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  3. too much for my tired mind

    ronald ernest paul

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  4. this is harder than i thought it would be:

    "vohnnd!" said jonah

    noon dash diva jh

    do join hands havn

    ...

    i give up!

    john david hanson

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