“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” – Andre Gide
A rictameter. Starting your first line with a two-syllable word, you then consecutively increase the number of syllables per line by two. i.e. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 Then down again, 8, 6, 4, 2, making the final line the same two-syllable word you began with.
Inspired and paraphrased from this comic strip at oglaf.com
Shared with What do you see # 281 picture prompt
I took the lyrics from the Minutemen’s Paranoid Chant and asked AI to rearrange them into another poem and after some revision, it spat out some interesting non-rhyming phrases and I then mixed in the original with this to come up with this new poem. The theme is the same as the original and considering it is from 40 years ago, sadly still relevant.
Charlie Zero The Poet Music picks & Reviews #16 and my quick thoughts:
Wax Chattels – A cool new find for me – thanks – will be checking out more! Even though there’s no guitar, it sounds like there is.
The Killing Popes – This is cool stuff. Gives me a glitchy Matmos vibe mixed up with some less avant out-there jazz. A scan of my computer finds that I already have this, so must’ve been impressed on a previous listen too.
Thank – Another familiar band and a nice expansion of the noise rock genre.
Darth Vegas – Very familiar with Darth Vegas as Mikey is a friend of mine. There was a time when we discussed releasing this together on vinyl, but with no sign of there being any shows to help push it, it didn’t make sense to go ahead, unfortunately.
kavv – Nice end of the night vibes and inoffensive enough to be enjoyed anywhere else. I’d never choose to put this on myself, but also wouldn’t turn it off if it popped up somewhere.
Remember – the USA is NOT the world! The rest of the world is the global majority.
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