Poem: "Brainwreck"
Jan. 5th, 2010 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithToday's first freebie poem was inspired by a prompt from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wyld_dandelyon and a fervent desire to write something short and silly after finishing a tragic/romantic epic. I wasn't trying for a specific form, but it fell into something resembling a limerick; the long lines are near-rhymed and the short lines are true-rhymed. This is wacky linguistic humor that also draws on the idea that, if language influences thought, you could conceivably wrench something if you stretched too far...
Binary, trinary, hex,
Octal, and who knows what's next --
If we keep on this way
There will be hell to pay:
Brocas broke, Wernickes wrecked!
wyld_dandelyon and a fervent desire to write something short and silly after finishing a tragic/romantic epic. I wasn't trying for a specific form, but it fell into something resembling a limerick; the long lines are near-rhymed and the short lines are true-rhymed. This is wacky linguistic humor that also draws on the idea that, if language influences thought, you could conceivably wrench something if you stretched too far...Brainwreck
Binary, trinary, hex,
Octal, and who knows what's next --
If we keep on this way
There will be hell to pay:
Brocas broke, Wernickes wrecked!
