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The Longest Poem in the World

13 August 2009 94 views No Comment

Twitter has become a phenomenal  way for people to stay in touch.

Famous personalities, from d-list losers all the way up to the president himself take advantage of this medium to gab, jaw and shoot the shit about anything and everything…in 140 characters or less of course.

Inevitably, Twitter has also become a haven for narcissistic nobodies who tweet the joys of their last bowel movement or facebrag in quantities that their facebook status message just could not handle.

Could anything of value come from these one-liners, the chum of cyberspace?

Yes! And believe it or not, it’s poetry!

And Rimbaud wept.

The Longest Poem in the World is a site which assembles random tweets in couplets to form an endless rhyming monstrosity. It is constantly updated with fresh tweets and is one of the greatest contributions that tweetology has gifted the world. It is also a cool snapshot created by authors unknowingly collaborating on a momentary work…

http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com

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