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Found Poetry

From our StatCounter service I receive daily emails with various stats, including the search terms that people used to find our site.  I usually let these sit in my inbox until I have a few months saved up and then I sort through and pick out some of the strange or unusual ones.   As the list builds, I begin to notice common themes and phrases. Occasionally they will be in a sequence that actually makes sense.  By grouping and rearranging the phrases I put together the following Found poems.  The phrases in the titles and passages are exactly as entered. I haven’t edited for spelling or added/removed words.

our multipolar disorder

elected officials inept

crippling nostalgia

the american dream? time to wake up!

the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas

if it’s a lie, then we fight on that lie, but we gotta fight

the fear urgency of now

no matter how long the darkness is

the sunbeams will cut through them like swords.

we are confronted with the urgency

while usa sleeps about war

philosophy of the end of the world in religions



memo from god

important if true. christianity

the sky is falling meaning

there’s no reason to be jolly

cruel callous and kind

. . .

hope despair zen

illusion of sky man falling on bathroom

give him my regards

do people choose to change

do people really change?

why people really don’t want change

nothing stays the same in life

i know nothing stays the same but if your willing to play the game

click the crystal ball and it will guess

evil joe lieberman

lieberman sith lord

oh you are just the worst type of person

household torture methods

sensory overload and deprivation

i won’t tell you what you want to hear

how much elemental sulfur can you be exposed to?

i can smell sulfur in my fingernails

hands smell like sulfur

how to debone smelt

shad and freud

the dharma of eliot spitzer

prettiest vagina in new york

kinematic pleasure

clytemnestra carpet

. . .

dream last night hillary clinton

outdoor intercourse

manure mattress

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  1. I used to do Found poems with my kids in the remedial reading classes I taught. I loved it. Their poems always turned out so great. And the added plus of being good summaries! I liked to use Newspaper articles to get them reading and searching for interesting phrases.

    Thanks for posting this….brought back nice memories of my kids.

    • nocatz on May 21, 2008 at 05:41

    After tonights PP, there will probably be some interesting hits.  

    Although I still find it kinda hard to believe that someone searched for Shad and Freud.

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  2. One of my oft-used (perhaps over-used) expressions is right there at the top.

    Crippling Nostalgia.

    Used it so much that I just had to make it a chapter title.

    Now I know I’ve really made it.

    • OPOL on May 21, 2008 at 05:52

    The sunbeams will cut through them like swords.

  3. YET

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