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Poetry
#21
RE: Poetry
If you want some interesting poetry read Rimbaud.
Personally, it's not God I dislike, it's his fan club I can't stand.
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#22
RE: Poetry
(July 22, 2009 at 1:09 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Lol I like it. It's funny and weird.

I was thinking that perhaps I should change "Robots" to machines since that's more general and it works well with the 'might' and 'malfunction', with the 'm's.

EvF

EvF,

Given the etymology of the word I would leave it as is:

The word robot comes from the word robota meaning literally serf labor, and, figuratively, "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech, Slovak and Polish. The origin of the word is the Old Church Slavonic rabota "servitude" ("work" in contemporary Russian), which in turn comes from the Indo-European root *orbh-. Robot is cognate with the German word Arbeiter (worker).

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek

I think it is more picturesque even though it is a bit esoteric. Servitude to a mechanistic universe?

Rhizo
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#23
RE: Poetry
Oki Doki,

I tried a re-punctuated version with both in though. And then maybe it's better punctuated this way but with no usage of machine, both might work though. And I actually quite like "Machine" with "Malfunction" and "Robot" with "Wrong", and I'm not leaving out robot that way Tongue:

Malfunction

We are machines, we might malfunction
We are robots, we might go wrong

Perhaps we should be warned
That it’s not just to be scorned
When what we do, we don’t just spawn.
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#24
RE: Poetry
A bit of John Cooper Clarke for ya....

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the fucking cops are fucking keen

to fucking keep it fucking clean

the fucking chief's a fucking swine

who fucking draws a fucking line

at fucking fun and fucking games

the fucking kids he fucking blames

are nowehere to be fucking found

anywhere in chicken town

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the fucking scene is fucking sad

the fucking news is fucking bad

the fucking weed is fucking turf

the fucking speed is fucking surf

the fucking folks are fucking daft

don't make me fucking laugh

it fucking hurts to look around

everywhere in chicken town

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the fucking train is fucking late

you fucking wait you fucking wait

you're fucking lost and fucking found

stuck in fucking chicken town

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the fucking view is fucking vile

for fucking miles and fucking miles

the fucking babies fucking cry

the fucking flowers fucking die

the fucking food is fucking muck

the fucking drains are fucking fucked

the colour scheme is fucking brown

everywhere in chicken town

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the fucking pubs are fucking dull

the fucking clubs are fucking full

of fucking girls and fucking guys

with fucking murder in their eyes

a fucking bloke is fucking stabbed

waiting for a fucking cab

you fucking stay at fucking home

the fucking neighbors fucking moan

keep the fucking racket down

this is fucking chicken town

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the fucking train is fucking late

you fucking wait you fucking wait

you're fucking lost and fucking found

stuck in fucking chicken town

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the fucking pies are fucking old

the fucking chips are fucking cold

the fucking beer is fucking flat

the fucking flats have fucking rats

the fucking clocks are fucking wrong

the fucking days are fucking long

it fucking gets you fucking down

evidently chicken town
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#25
RE: Poetry
Lol, I oddly like it, it's an oddity.

Meh, who am I kidding? It's not odd that I like it. Not unsurprising it at all!!

Poetry sketch from ABOFAL, it's hilarious and I love it, anyone else can tell me if they think it's off-topic or not.

It is on the topic of 'poetry', it's poetry in a poetically hilarious genius sketch. And the video isn't at the start of the thread, so I assume that it's okay to put it here? If anyone disagrees please tell me so Smile

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- I blood love it lol

EvF
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