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Post number 19537

Stan Chin — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:33:31 -0800

Onesixty: The SMS Poetry Magazine. Mobile phone poetry, as Andrew Wilson describes it "Text messages are short, so the subject has to be tackled in a way that will fit into 160 characters. A text message poem has to find one truthful moment and describe it." Write your own with this handy abbreviation guide and intro from the Guardian.

By: Stan Chin

Stan Chin — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:35:53 -0800

Also, more poetry from Centrifugal Forces. No, I don't understand most of it either, but interesting concept.

By: zekinskia

zekinskia — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:50:27 -0800

Hmm, looks like those mobile phone users pathetic enough to participate are all desperate for sex. {extreme_sarcasm}I'm shocked.{/extreme_sarcasm} Good luck you horny dogs, I'm sure thumbing in your soft-core poems will have you humping like bunnies any minute now!

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:16:53 -0800

and i was just getting used to L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E.

By: webmutant

webmutant — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:33:11 -0800

No, you weren't.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:46:55 -0800

Yes, i weren't.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:15:37 -0800

No: it's what you weren't.

By: moz

moz — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:20:43 -0800

i like the design of the site, but the poetry needs help.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:44:27 -0800

Hm. I thought I'd heard of Suzanne Frishkorn (first poem on OneSixty) somewhere. But I'm still not sure where I've read her.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 20:33:01 -0800

I remember a book from my childhood, entitled "CDB", which featured on its cover a cartoon of one boy pointing out a bumblebee to another boy. C D B? This reminds me of that book, which contained the following passage: D D-R S N D I-V. Accompanying this passage was a cartoon of a wapiti in some foliage. For some reason, the elementary school-aged me found this hilarious. Now that I think about it a little, I still find it hilarious, but I think today's hilarity is aided more than a little by beer. Sweet, sweet beer.

By: Stan Chin

Stan Chin — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:18:18 -0800

Holy smoly Crash, how the heck did you figure that out when you were in elementary school? It took me awhile going "Dee dee ar? Dance dance Revolution? Dee Der Essence Der Iv? [10 minutes pass] Oooh... The Deer is in the Ivy." You're some kind of... brain baby.

By: taz

taz — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:47:51 -0800

Mr. Crash. was that the Reader's Digest abridged version of the book? I learned the first tale this way: C D Bs? L, M R N O Bs. S M R. L, I L B!

By: mediareport

mediareport — Thu, 29 Aug 2002 05:58:26 -0800

Worth mentioning that CDB was written by New Yorker cartoonist William Steig, who also wrote Shrek.