What passes for poetry these days…
Written on April 19, 2005
Architect Daniel Libeskind, designer of that monstrous eyesore that will replace the World Trade Center (and who — surprise! — prefers to wear all black) is also the author of the following moving piece of poetry:
America turns its mass-produced urine antennae toward Caesar’s arrogant ganglion, while history is advocated by utopians as a substitute for defecating.
Yikes. This reminds me of this really absurd guy I used to know who had wallpapered his room in 3×5 index cards filled with similar writings, ranting about “spouting your platitudes” and other incredibly arrogant and meaningless drivel, all of it designed to impress the people he deemed worthy enough to show it to. I thought it was pretty hilarious, in a pathetic sort of way. It’s amazing what people will try to pass off as intelligent writing these days, when instead all they are doing is putting a bunch of ridiculously overblown words together and calling it “art.”
For proof that computers can produce literature that is actually more meaningful than Libeskind’s rotten brain, check out any of the many bullshit generators around the web.