On the ships
on the ships we went dancing and laughing, joy with sweet patient fungus
in the alley behind the fender of my aging heart —
into nothing
I shall scatter with lavish pride whole troops of stars flaming on the bartendin bitch down at — different times
a feeling comes –
my splayed-out compact car half-sunk
she sang to me
enter the room
to tell the lowlier ones of sights and deeds and thus make a graveyard around an enormous act
retreat
nothing is long and straight
disgorge
also a colonial custom
leo and lance
ah, that word disdain forbids me to sing
for brawn, I don’t die exactly but with a knife in your mind
began shrill and metallic
bar jammed in the dead leaving sheaves of brier and harebell to bloom again
I could deserve a new lord
fruit for food gave thee all the laws
About this poem
This poem was very closely inspired by a poem randomly generated using a trigram Naive Bayes language model that I built (in python) and trained on a dataset of poetry from the poetry foundation website that included around 15,000 poems by over 3,000 different authors. I made adjustments to the poem based on my interpretation of the model's intended meaning.
Written on December 21, 2021
Submitted by johanek.r on December 22, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNCOPQRS |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 815 |
Words | 149 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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