Poetry's Resurrection:

When Silicon Dreams of Verse

Student Grading - an art work & poem by T Newfields

How many people listen to what poets say?
Isn't poetry just a pointless pastime, a dusty relic,
or gilded tombstone to magnificent waste,
and epitaph carved in ivory towers?

But fear not, salvation is here!
Behold the ABC Poeation Tool:
a digital Frankenstein that takes linguistic ash,
and transmutes it into glittering nonsense,
gold-plated gibberish and post-modern verse
with kaleidoscopic impossibilities.

Simply flick a few switches,
twist some cryptic dials,
and watch it conjure up
a magnificent abomination
of binary brilliance encased in silicon dreams.

The output may reek of artifice,
but if it gleams with a neon sheen
why worry?

Christen it poetry!
Maybe it acutally is.