My Very Own Modest Proposal

[gfish]

As an arbitrary attempt to leave my intellectual mark upon the world, I decided to invent a new form of poetry. Unfortunately, I'm not very good at poetry. I don't even really like it. Therefore any potential form had to be both short and self-writing.

The result of literally minutes of intense procrastination: found acronym haiku.

Take an acronym. Expand both ends redundantly. Done. Example: 'ATM' becomes 'Automatic ATM Machine'. Easy! Yet also compelling to the modern soul, carefuly deconstructing the linguistic glyphs that surround us with a knowing, self-referential wink. Or something.

Personal PIN Number. File FTP Protocol. Light LASER Radiation. Redundant RAID Drives. Central CIA Agency. Radio RADAR Ranging. Grand GOP Party.

Comments

[samidha.livejournal.com]

Tom always jokingly refers to ATMs as "the Automated Teller Machine Machines." ;) To mock others, of course.

--Mordie

[shadowblue.livejournal.com]

Didn't we do this already?

Moooommm, Fishy's going all redundant again.

Hey, wait. "Grand GOP Party"? *googles* ... It means "Grand Old Party"? What egotistical ... idiocy.

[bientot.livejournal.com]

This is indeed inspired. You know, with a little tweaking and suitable expansion, it would probably be just the thing to get you published in A.I.R. (http://www.improb.com/), the ONLY 'scholarly' journal I ever really respected.