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		<title>The Break Up Poems</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psst &#8230; need to break up with someone? Just because it&#8217;s emotionally gut-wrenching it doesnt&#8217; mean that you can&#8217;t be creative.
Here&#8217;s a funny video clip about how to break up with someone &#8230; with poetry! Link
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2009-02/break-up-poem.jpg" width="150" height="124" class="imageleft">Psst &#8230; need to break up with someone? Just because it&#8217;s emotionally gut-wrenching it doesnt&#8217; mean that you can&#8217;t be creative.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a funny video clip about how to break up with someone &#8230; with poetry! <a href="http://www.misscellania.com/miss-cellania/2009/2/21/the-break-up-poem.html">Link</a></p>
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		<title>A 224-Word Palindrome</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A palindrome is a word or a phrase which is the same when read from the start or the end, for example the word wow or racecar. Or how about the phrase; A Toyota&#8217;s a Toyota. where ever you start they are the same.
You would imagine a palindrome is pretty hard to think up, maybe [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://neatorama.cachefly.net/misscellania/150palindrome.jpg" class="imageleft" />A palindrome is a word or a phrase which is the same when read from the start or the end, for example the word <em>wow</em> or <em>racecar</em>. Or how about the phrase; <em>A Toyota&#8217;s a Toyota.</em> where ever you start they are the same.</p>
<p>You would imagine a palindrome is pretty hard to think up, maybe the odd word could be easy enough, and with a bit of effort a phrase, well how about a 224 word poem? here&#8217;s </p>
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&quot;Dammit I&#8217;m Mad&quot;
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Demetri Martin
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<blockquote cite="http://www.slate.com/id/2101150/sidebar/2101387/ent/2101353/"><p><em>Dammit I&#8217;m mad.<br />
Evil is a deed as I live.<br />
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.<br />
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.<br />
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?<br />
Man, it is hot. I&#8217;m in it. I tell.<br />
I am not a devil. I level &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221;.<br />
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,<br />
In my halo of a mired rum tin.<br />
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.<br />
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?<br />
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.<br />
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.<br />
Be still if I fill its ebb.<br />
Ew, a spider… eh?<br />
We sleep. Oh no!<br />
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.<br />
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.<br />
Both, one… my names are in it.<br />
Murder? I&#8217;m a fool.<br />
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,<br />
A Goddam level I lived at.<br />
On mail let it in. I&#8217;m it.<br />
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!<br />
A loss it is alas (sip). I&#8217;d assign it a name.<br />
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:<br />
&#8220;Sir, I deliver. I&#8217;m a dog&#8221;<br />
Evil is a deed as I live.<br />
Dammit I&#8217;m mad.</em></p>
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<p>I promise you, bar some punctuation, it reads the same forwards or backwards.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2101150/sidebar/2101387/ent/2101353/">Link</a></p>
<p>(image credit: Flickr user <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14239765@N00/251008157/">puja</a>)</p>
<p>From the <a href="http://www.neatorama.com/upcoming">Upcoming <img src="http://neatorama.cachefly.net/img7/NeatoQ.jpg" class="middle" align="absmiddle"/>ueue</a>, submitted by <img alt='' src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f4a4a675610de8d7c68d57d07626a179?s=16&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D16&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-16' height='16' width='16'  class="middle" align="absmiddle"/> <span title="member since February 2nd, 2009 @ 19:47:05" class="profilelink">Jake</span>.</p>
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		<title>Tiny Poems</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/14/tiny-poems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tiny Poems is a blog about mini poetry written on a single sheet of sticky yellow Post-It Notes. Sometimes the best ideas are the simplest, and the cleverest poets are the briefest!
Like a madness,
it grips internals,
twitching,
flexing,
instincts correlate,
holding me here,
driving me closer to them.

Link &#8211; via rickoshea
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2009-01/tiny-poems.jpg" width="150" height="180" class="imageleft">Tiny Poems is a blog about mini poetry written on a single sheet of sticky yellow Post-It Notes. Sometimes the best ideas are the simplest, and the cleverest poets are the briefest!</p>
<blockquote cite="http://tinypoet.blogspot.com/"><p><em>Like a madness,<br />
it grips internals,<br />
twitching,<br />
flexing,<br />
instincts correlate,<br />
holding me here,<br />
driving me closer to them.</em></p>
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<p><a href="http://tinypoet.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Link</a> &#8211; via <a href="http://rickoshea.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/tiny-post/" target="_blank">rickoshea</a></p>
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