Poetry Friday: A modest proposal
Matt (resident husband) said the other day that Google suggestion boxes shou
ld be the newest form of poetry out there. And I agree, that this particular search is clearly a poem.
Thanks to BB-Blog for the link.
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Nice! I will add to that this link from McSweeney’s – a quiz about whether each line is a YouTube comment or e.e. cummings:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/1vincent.html
That’s fantastic! Google’s suggestions are fascinating and mysterious–I’d love to know how many times people have to search for a given phrase before it comes up as a suggestion. Maybe authors could start manipulating it–they could have all their friends do a search for things like “meaning of life” or “miley cyrus” plus the name of their book just so it starts showing up as a suggestion…
Ending with Harriet Tubman is somehow inspired… Typing “I am” into Google is always amusing, too. “I am vast. I am vast and contain… I am bored. I am extremely terrified of … I am legend. I’m a celebrity, get me out of here. I am sam.” Beat poetry.
Perfect. Jesus as a frisky badger comes up first? That’s sort of Narnia-ish, don’t you think?
I’ll grant you the badger, but frisky?
Love this! And I totally failed the e.e. cummings quiz (hanging head in shame). But it was fun, anyway.
Carol, your idea is too funny! A new marketing area to exploit–um, I mean explore.