Twitter Poems
TWITTER POEMS
Poems created by English 111 using a Twitter feed just among the 13 participants
Scroll to bottom for the two seed texts — the two sets of Twitter feeds used to created the versions presented here.
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Rebekah Caton
from Twitter Poem 1
If you want to—
crack my black,
berry snap-in-half,
then buy me.
A new one: they don’t
even hold doors.
Buy snapberry crack—
In a new door-breathe-me
Doors crack-breathe in
Another two times.
My three she’s,
Fucking Joan Baez
And she knows it.
That is just.
Exceptional news:
It’ll make you look
Like gold, and feel
Like plastic and think
Like old glow worms:
WHO ARE WE GOING
TO HAVE SEX WITH
Pre-prep-position-post &
Ending on home-home—
But home = less home.
Think a position: Two.
Three times Florida,
Standing up, two/two/
Two/and decreasing.
Function didn’t mean
Negative comment.
Everyone should try
to do a line a day.
Looking up looking
Down. How this close
Look, how close this
Up/down. Look now &
Step away, now. Wipe.
The table charges hope
For mercy, hope—
In exchange for mercy,
Merci. Wouldja look at
that Calvin only so?
Many things I can
disguise it as—who will,
Really, believe that I
travel with a 4 ft telescope &
They call me tripod, I’m
A man machine, I am.
Aggressive-agree or
Disengage, swipe & run.
Full frontal penniless.
Economy, well. Wisher’s
Alligator missile launcher?
Use it all.
Up, you sit, & towel. Up
Palms placed, up upward.
Sloping, they demanded so.
Little for ecologists: the
Small and silly sipperists,
Come smoke and swallow—
Cigarettes, lets just say
When you smoke more
than you want your lungs—
Begin to bleed.
Poem’s written, kids
f you’ve a phrase that can’t
Can’t be wasted, send it up,
Otherwise, we’re less than
5 seconds ago.
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Curtis Rogers
from Twitter Poem 2
For the following poem, I used all of the twittter updates our class produced between March 16th and 30th as Google search terms. I then listed, in order, the first description line of the first search result for each term. Then, I removed words until the following poem was formed, with some editing for flow. —
Final Tweet. What could be more self-important than tweeting on Twitter?
He told me to recall the definition of went. The meaning of went.
He told me to Find Washington DC and The Fuck of Her Life.
The University of Delaware offers over 100
drawers in my kitchen. Should I buy a tribute with a Beer Bottle?
Whatever I do, it’s never enough. Sleeping through the
divorce and custody of their child.
three weeks before he was she, Jan 27, 1999, The little dog laughed.
I am trying to find out a word that means
ride Snowboards in Canada, in English, in French
Even if you’ve played zonk before
you are a shoe and you have a long walk made. If you are a shoe
Lace ‘em up and hit the ice. Hockey just got the blood
straight from the vein, dark in its implication? Her hair was My brain -
I overstimulated. It was good. Whenever someone rolls a yatzee we yell out “saki!
Love game time! Modeling and simulation, and I continue to give
Lacey Costume Wigs 4 MY LADIES, AN 4 MY LADIES
I wear my MACs like this more than any other way. You can buy lobster
dedicated to improving the quality of life for Americans who suffer from
the fourth broken by
being a man in his 20s.
Have you ever wanted to own a business in the
Definition of immobilized in the Online Dictionary?
Meaning of
Pronunciation of
mysterious wonders that still have to
assist first responders in hazardous material incidents.
Do they do the same thing? DEPENDING ON THE ANSWER
If I Were Your Shoes
esther! it shut!
Shut Down Starbucks
Otherwise, he could not be sure — he’d have a 2/3 chance
I don’t know whether you will carry my will, however I entrust you my final
sandwich and he’s nice.
Triggered by the bonuses and the perhaps-hasty action
by Keyshia Cole performing I Remember with Benny Boom
Why do Geese fly North in Winter?
Who is Hemo?
1.crazy po’ like a mofo
2. no loot.
3. tough finicial times
I know it all sounds like psycho babble, but it helps me with decisions … or you
blow off all five for the one party in the nearest future, Or if it took place in the past,
its more like adopting a new child than getting reminded of the cartoon.
800 services allow voice query for stocks and horoscopes But
Does your driver’s license photo scare even you? Does your photo resemble an Egyptian
health professional? The finest in visionary cuisine, downbeat electronica, multimedia and
health professionals blinking just to feel a feel
like I’m failing,
if I feel like people no longer believe in me, if I feel like I’m letting
Nick Kamen Love You Sweeter Than Ever then
For the last two days there has been an avalanche of philosophy from
Brody Jenner making sweet music with Hi kishimojun,
a miracle if it was it is out there somewhere, probably hiding,
instructed to introduce new terms only when the concept to be portrayed is
My Parade In Love. I Won’t Last A Day Without Ordinary somethings
too personal and too circumstantial to relate;
We don’t bother the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for
emissions across generations, Womp Womp - 7 definitions –
A lighthearted phrase that indicates He added sugar and flavouring,
and chewing gum was born.
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Alex Goldstein
1
I’m stealin your tweets full frontal –
penniless economy upward sloping,
they demanded,
but demand slopes downward.
Why can’t he just buy another tractor?
It’ll make you look like gold
And feel like plastic.
Her life,
fuck any more evening rain
and I won’t believe.
In miracles, anymore sleep
is for the week
sleep for a week.
It means I am trying
the blonde.
It means
use it all up –
It means it all
Use it all up in
hope, in exchange for mercy, in
charges, hope for mercy
palms placed up.
It depends, come smoke and swallow.
cigarettes painting with her pinkie,
she draws implications
with her finger:
It shut!
Esther, shut it!
Not I
in the waiting line.
Comment –
not part of the poem, wisdom that was
learned
or imbibed
immobilized
inspire
spiral in
inspire
long blinks if you’re tired.
Look how close this
Look
Looking up
Looking down
How –
But what are we making?
Crack in a new door,
teach me against the freezer
burns.
2
it means i am trying prepositions:
in, in
final tweet wiser (If I were in your shoes).
esther, the man
who makes your
sandwiches, of course – revenge of the recipients.
long blinks
if you’re tired, I don’t want to stop this.
chain-smoking gum,
that is just exceptional news, but
If you want to crack my Black,
berrysnap in half then buy me
a new one–
They don’t even hold doors.
jitterbug
fast talkers
twittertug
litterrug
slow thinkers
heavy breathers
bitterjug
twittering twitterers
disjointed sentencers –
Get it, Buddy?
I sadly own a unitard, an exceptional infinity, beauty pool and water gazebo…
The end.
not awake.9:14 AM
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Stephanie Costa
(Everyone’s last posts as of April 1, recombined)
Have you seen the philosorapter
a coming-and-going?
No.
Across the freezer?
After the freezer?
Against the freezer?
Above the freezer?
Teach me about her life,
me too.
The small and silly sipperists,
No.
I have been told those can’t be photographed.
If I am reprehensible as a person
then the world would implode outside.
Come smoke and swallow cigarettes
as a result of my place of birth.
The freezer burns,
it means the Ostinuum freezer circle saw her life,
fuck that.
The glory of those uniforms,
R I D E.
Why can’t he buy another tractor?
Anyone?
Just teach me teach me teach me teach me
it all.
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Enmanuel Martinez
Stream of consciousness.
*This is a recombination of all my Twitter posts.
I want to play
that game where I tell him
I don’t believe
in miracles (anymore)—
only evening rain
and circumstantial evidence.
Because there’s so much
else to tell him.
There is so much
to write…
so much I could put down to fill
this limited void.
I could tell a story,
tell you a lie.
I could,
but I won’t.
Because I believe
in constraints,
in the possibility of believing
in laughter,
smiles
and head nods.
But tell me something;
is this how you break
a heart: </3
is this how you break
a heart: <\3
or is this how: <|3
?
No, I believe it’s this:
…
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Caitlin Drummond
Poem 1:
Not Two, Not Three, but like Makeshift
March 24: Sleep is for the week coming-and-going. I am trying it, all of it. Colored puffed wig, it was never enough. Fuck. A makeshift clasp. With her finger, freezers learn. Teach me, she draws implication with her pinkie. Another tractor tweet RIDE. Learn by example, freezers burn. And the spoon ran away. Drew implications. Learned. Tweeted. Slept.
March 25: Fuck her coming-and-going. Teach me to paint. Teach the stork to bring the rain and Dad. Editing notes find fish. It was never enough from the web.
March 26: Bought another tractor and went. It all went. It all went away with the spoon. It can’t be photographed, so get in. Pay child support.
March 28: It depends, helicopter, it depends.
March 30: It depends on colored puffed wigs and sleep and clasped fingers and freezing. My pinkies learned, I ran away. Came and Went. I can’t be photographed, not anymore. I found four broken. I believed in believing until belief appeared slower and wiser. I am not IV I am not next I don’t want to put myself in your shoes because I don’t believe in alchemy. I imbibe immobility, dream of absconding and finding more than fish, finding the dish and the spoon, together, finding rain to RIDE.
[Poem 2 (really a series of poems)]
Love is less than diamonds, more than spheres—
teach me to draw wisdom, I want to
watch it fly north with the helicopter,
stop and sleep cigarette dreams,
palms faced up in agreement with
love is long blinks upside down,
looking like gold and feeling like hope,
falling out of the ground onto the crowd
while mercy’s outside chain-smoking.
Love is an unreliable Narrator,
she demands revenge
but all I have is $640 from a 7-11—
my only weapon a feeling of homelessness and three
minutes in which to say that I feel plastic and
penniless and dream of upward-sloping fate.
Free will is only free for spheres
and other naïve prepositions—
I don’t believe in coincidences and this is just to say that
I wish I was slower and wiser,
but makeshift tapers and what I truly need is sleep.
Poem 3:
Advice for a Helicopter:
A Small and Silly (Twitter) Play in 6 Rules
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Twitter Poem 2: Source Text
this is the running text of the collaborative Twitter poem, compiled by Curtis Rogers
final tweet…tweet.
Why can’t he just buy another tractor?
Went
her life, a coming-and-going.
her life, fuck.
NSITCRBUTIAFML.
No. Those can’t be photographed. If anyone outside the Ostinuum circle saw the glory of those uniforms then the world would implode
to UD: Profile Pic is from when Dad and I ventured out into the ocean at the Ostinuum, will email a longer update later
UD!!!!!!
burning freezers learn more easily when taught by example
teach me about the freezer teach me above the freezer teach me across the freezer teach me after the freezer teach me against the freezer
freezer burns
it was never enough, anyways
and the spoon paid $17,000 a year in child support
the dish ran away with the spoon
it means it all
it means i am trying
R I D E.
you zonk
find four fish here…..each?
find four fish here
have you seen the philosorapter?
</3 ; <\3 ; <|3
the blond absconded with the horopter— the caper tapers
the rain in Spain falls mainly on the helicopter
painting with her pinkie
she draws implication with her finger
my brain is as good as the stork
my favorite game is yatzee
it depends
colored puffed wig
no flavoricious
crazy 8s!
like a makeshift clasp
sleep for a week
ze fourth vall is broken
sleep is for the week
not II, not III, not The Fourth
not I
in the waiting line for Today’s Best Nightmare
up down inside out
prepositions are sexual
who’s next?
I dream of the magic of this man. Spellbound by his tricks, I dream of apprenticeship and learning the essence of this alchemy.
believes in the possibility of believing.
and jazzercised
immobilized
wisdom that was learned or imbibed
wiser
i’d be doing the same thing, except slower and
If I were in your shoes
esther wolfed down all the humentaschen
esther! it shut!
shut it, esther
3 SILENCE! has my HAT
My /\ it has 3 >’s
vashti is my enemy
the man who makes your sandwiches, of course
revenge of the recipients
I remember
They fly north when winter’s done
Roller blades
Who is Hemo?
broke as a joke
sounds like a major emergency outside
unlike upsidedown bubblegum-blowing
I wish I had gone with them
puıɯ ɹnoʎ ʍoןq ɐuuoƃ ɯ,ı
looks like star star and and less than diamond greater than
Loved your poem - p4p- 111
tell me
**&&«», what does that even resemble?
</inspire>
>spiral in<
<inspire>
long blinks if you’re tired
someone inspire me
This is how you break a heart: </3
Mr. Philosophy has us surrounded
brody jenner…..shut the f up
just believes in bromance
spherical miracles of evening fate
I believe in romantic fate—free will is only free in certain spheres of life
any more evening rain and I won’t believe in miracles anymore.
I don’t believe in miracles (any more)—only evening rain and circumstantial coincidence.
META POST!
I don’t want to stop this
This Is Just To Say
but what are we making?
womp… womp.
chain-smoking gum
poem’s written, kids. if you’ve a phrase that can’t be wasted, send it up, otherwise, we’re over.
EXTENDED SOURCE TEXT, 3/4/2009-4/8/2009 compiled by Jared McDonald (apologies for the lack of line breaks)
quite the aficionado quote the aficionado judah Freidlander is amazing nurrevir riverrun an ongoing social experiment not an official poem anymore but internet success! our monkeys do read poems, lipsay we should teach a monkey to read our poems. me too I have been told that I am reprehensible as a person as a result of my place of birth. —-compiling—- start 8. note—- note editing Tweets ! in those I’m editing last—- final tweet…tweet. Why can’t he just buy another tractor? Went her life, a coming-and-going. her life, fuck. NSITCRBUTIAFML. No. Those can’t be photographed. If anyone outside the Ostinuum circle saw the glory of those uniforms then the world would implode to UD: Profile Pic is from when Dad and I ventured out into the ocean at the Ostinuum, will email a longer update later UD!!!!!! burning freezers learn more easily when taught by example teach me about the freezer teach me above the freezer teach me across the freezer teach me after the freezer teach me against the freezer freezer burns it was never enough, anyways and the spoon paid $17,000 a year in child support the dish ran away with the spoon it means it all it means i am trying R I D E. you zonk find four fish here…..each? find four fish here have you seen the philosorapter? <\3 ; <|3 the blond absconded with the horopter— the caper tapers the rain in Spain falls mainly on the helicopter painting with her pinkie she draws implication with her finger my brain is as good as the stork my favorite game is yatzee it depends colored puffed wig no flavoricious crazy 8s! like a makeshift clasp sleep for a week ze fourth vall is broken sleep is for the week not II, not III, not The Fourth not I in the waiting line for Today’s Best Nightmare up down inside out prepositions are sexual who’s next? I dream of the magic of this man. Spellbound by his tricks, I dream of apprenticeship and learning the essence of this alchemy. believes in the possibility of believing. and jazzercised immobilized wisdom that was learned or imbibed wiser i’d be doing the same thing, except slower and If I were in your shoes esther wolfed down all the humentaschen esther! it shut! shut it, esther 3 SILENCE! has my HAT My /\ it has 3 >’s vashti is my enemy the man who makes your sandwiches, of course revenge of the recipients I remember They fly north when winter’s done Roller blades Who is Hemo? broke as a joke sounds like a major emergency outside unlike upsidedown bubblegum-blowing I wish I had gone with them puıɯ ɹnoʎ ʍoןq ɐuuoƃ ɯ,I looks like star star and and less than diamond greater than Loved your poem - p4p- 111 tell me **&&«», what does that even resemble? >spiral in< long blinks if you’re tired someone inspire me This is how you break a heart:
Source Text (Recombined)
Twitter Poem #1
bleed to begin, they demanded
palms placed up
tell me
It means I am trying
disguise can I only so many things
a like sounds unlike upsidedown:
negative mean didn’t function
decreasing, upstanding—
except slower and in your shoes
I wish I had gone with them,
the recipients of the revenge
they fly north not
for little so, for much so
a coming-and-going
away go yipping
run and side swipe, taught by example—
teach me
what comes before
in exchange for mercy
a break anymore, mercy for hope
about, above, across, against
charges hope.
draw implication, it depends
let’s just say
(editing note, start compiling)
look how close now
full frontal now
use it all up, wellwishers
enough never was
Twitter Poem #2
Full frontal now
From web
Waiting for tonight’s best nightmare
From web
Freezer burns
From web
My enemy (from web)
It means it all.
From web
Her life fuck,
From web
From web
It was never enough
From web
From web
From web
A coming and going
