poetry

[eyelessgame]

From mush. Starling suggested that to write poetry, "Write prose, run it through gzip. Really. It's all about compression."

I figure one there can be better advice (though for much modern poetry, it's hard to do better at approaching its comprehensibility than via gzip). I suggested this more practical tactic:

"Write prose, remove all the articles, turn the verbs into gerunds, then put linefeeds after every phrase. Presto, it's poetry."

Really. It works:

Writing prose
removing articles
turning verbs
into gerunds
putting linefeeds
after every phrase
presto, poetry.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like poetry -- has the cadence and form. Isn't really poetry.
Like a pony ain't gonna run in the Kentucky Derby.

Then again I have no respect for 'modern' poetry.