Monday, September 6, 2010
Ominous obituaries
How print becomes passé
by e-inked book displays
How World Wide Web gets zapped
by the spread of specialized apps
How cable-sat will die
in Apple TV's eye
How soon the demise of prose
as tweeting and texting grows?
How God just got run over
by Hawking's mobile Rover
All of these have been "___ is Dead"-stories in some form in the media recently.
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I enjoyed this poem. For one some of the questions are way worth asking and for two the Hawkings verse made me laugh at the end. Prose will never die. It shall outlast Twitter. Thank youf or sharing this piece.
ReplyDeleteVery clever, hope it doesnt happen:) Glad you have made your way to Poets United:)Write on! Your audience awaits!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
ReplyDeleteOn text-speak, or txtese, it's been pointed to elsewhere that some Victorian poets made use of something very much like it. Apparently prose survived :)
The world has become dependant on text
ReplyDeleteFrom, twitter to email and facebook. what's next?
From lol to rofl to brb,
These abbrieviations annoy me
Can we not pick up the phone or write a letter
No 'cos people think email and twitter are quicker and better
I have included your link in a rhyme of mine
ReplyDeletetake a look, if you get the time
kX
http://kashaw.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/thank-you-to-one-and-all/
Very true in every sense. May the immortality of Poetry outshine them all!
ReplyDeleteYou've outdone yourself with this one. Laugh-out-loud funny - more so because of the truth of "How God just got run over/by Hawking's mobile Rover"
ReplyDeleteI vote that you submit some of your stuff to The New Yorker immediately.
Thanks all! And @bryanborland: That's something to think about, The New Yorker :)
ReplyDeletehttp://jinglepoetry.blogspot.com/2010/09/poetry-potluck-big-bang.html
ReplyDeletewelcome to poetry pot luck party,
simply link in 1 to 3 poems, we will comment for you.
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maybe there will arrive an alternative prose... not necessarily an alternative to prose ? :)
ReplyDeleteA deceivingly simplistic approach to a 21st Century problem. The penultimate stanza had the most impact on me, as a writer and teacher, but each stanza contains a poignant truth. Thought-provoking piece, Philip.
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