LJI Week 9: Rejected 404 Messages

[alycewilson]

This is my entry for LJ Idol Friends & Rivals (therealljidol). This week we got to choose from several topics. I chose "404."

Comments

[halfshellvenus]

As abstract and bizarre as some of these things sound, you can also find the truth behind them. It's one of the reasons little kids are such fun. :D

[alycewilson]

Very true. I was going to go a different way with this poem, but I was so fascinated by the phrases they were coming up with. I thought it served the same purpose of alerting the users they wouldn't find what they wanted to find.

[rayaso]

You did an excellent job mimicking the thoughts of a small child playing this type of game. It was lots of fun to read.

[alycewilson]

Thank you! Listening to them broke me out of the quite serious reflections I initially sat down to make. Perhaps for the best.

[bleodswean]

This sort of "found" poetry can lead to astonishing insight. You've done a great job here piecing together both relevant and irrelevant lines to create a very thoughtful hole. Much like the computer game being played, eh? It's all circular once you let the unconscious work.

[alycewilson]

Exactly! I'm glad to hear these remarks, because "found" poetry can be an acquired taste, so to speak. You absolutely got what I was trying to do.

[whipchick]

I love found word poems, and this was so much fun to read!

[alycewilson]

Thank you. The phrases they were coming up with entertained me so much that I totally threw out my original idea and ran with it. Guess that's what happens when you write in a public library. :)

[sinnamongirl]

Very clever! Well done :)

[alycewilson]

Thanks! Glad you think so.