From: utzoo!decvax!duke!ryl@ihlts.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.poems
Title: Re: Untitled (Is it poetry?)
Article-I.D.: ihlts.131
Posted: Mon May  2 18:35:51 1983
Received: Tue May 17 07:18:07 1983

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Date:Mon, 2-May-83 18:35:51 EDT
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  Is it poetry?  No.  Part of poetry is structure and form,
not necessarily rhyme and meter, but at least coherence.
This particular poem doesn't even come close.  I'd guess
that the poem was either machine-generated by picking nouns
and verbs at random, or written by someone describing
a drug experience (I once wrote something very much like
this about the first time I got high on marijuana).
  In the latter case, the poem may make sense and contain
a message for some people in some special circumstances,
but it remains inaccessible to the rest of the population.
If poetry is a method of communication, then rambling random
collections of words do not qualify.

		Just my opinion,
			Bob "Laconic pentameter" Lied
			...ihnp4!ihlts!ryl	BTL-Indian Hill