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by chrisfosterelli 3641 days ago
That's how I got 6/6 as well. It's less about the actual words and more about if the poem was actually talking about anything coherent.
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Also interesting to compare with less thematically structured work. Probably not the greatest example but what comes to my mind is some of The Mars Volta's lyrics; a lot of it is pretty abstract and stream-of-consciousness and it's hard to really pinpoint a narrative as such, compared to the example poems which were pretty straightforward

    "Last night I heard lepers
    flinch like birth defects
    its musk was fecal in origin
    as the words dribbled off of its chin
    it said I'm lost
    I'm lost
    
    Now I'm lost
    
    Dolls wreck the minced meat of pupils
    cast in oblong arms length
    the hooks have been picking their scabs
    where wolves hide in the company of men
    it said I'm lost
    I'm lost"
All the computer poems were just rambling and rhyming and weren't really even trying to say anything. A lot of the time they phrased things VERY awkwardly too, to the point of being incomprehensible.
Sounds like rap music :)