Thursday, March 12, 2009

To tweet or not to tweet





To tweet or not to tweet, that is the question;
Whether 'tis mobler° in the daily grind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous Friends,
Or to make Blocks against a sea of troublemakers,
And by opposing them, end them.

...

                                    To shut down, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to network. Ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of network what friends may come,
When we have left our lonely clamshell°,
Must give up pause.

...

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of our iPhones' light
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And twitters of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the screen names of action.



re Totally Optional Prompts: Rewrite (rfps)

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° mobler: more moble
  clamshell: MacBook, formerly iBook (archaic)



4 comments:

  1. That is brilliant, Phil. It's like an extension of the Geek Poet thought, merging voices. Fantastically well executed too, seamless.

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  2. We just got done doing the "To Be or not to be" speech in my British Literature class. I might just share this with them!

    Fun!

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  3. Thanks for the comments!

    That would be cool to have a Lit class read my poem. Makes it worth it!

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  4. I believe my one-time-English-major spouse will like this too. I'm going to go find out now.

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