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's a Toyota. where ever you start they are the same.
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's
I promise you, bar some punctuation, it reads the same forwards or backwards.
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See also: A Day in Palindromia
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's
"Dammit I'm Mad"
by
Demetri Martin
Dammit I'm mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I'm in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level "Mad Dog".
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider… eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one… my names are in it.
Murder? I'm a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I'm it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I'd assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
"Sir, I deliver. I'm a dog"
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I'm mad.
I promise you, bar some punctuation, it reads the same forwards or backwards.
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(image credit: Flickr user puja)
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Jake.
See also: A Day in Palindromia
+10, Demetri.
For some reason it reminds me of Dutch Schulz' dying rant.
By the way, the very first conversation consisted entirely of palindromes. Adam wakes up to find Eve beside him, and introduces himself: "Madam, I'm Adam." Eve is kind of shy and just gives her name: "Eve."
"Son, I am able," she said,
"though you scare me."
"Watch," said I,
"Beloved," I said,
"Watch me scare you."
"Though," said she, "able am I son."
I Palindrome I:
This guy, a crazy genius french writer also wrote a novel without the letter "e", critics at time praise the book without even noticing this "exercice de style"
http://www.spinelessbooks.com/2002/
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog
OMG. I can live another day.
How Sure are you, on a scale of 1 to 7, that you could get a computer to do the same thing?
And would this computer's hair be a gloriously floppy as Demetri Martin's?
yo banana babe! o' mama, i am amoeba banana boy.
"And would this computer’s hair be a gloriously floppy as Demetri Martin’s?"
You might be able to get it to look at least like a bisexual George...
Lot of work for a pretty worthless result.
"Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas."
Using 'osciallate' in a palindrome at all gets props by me!
retteb siflahd nocese httub, but the second half is better.
Here's one. Picture a golf foursome, three guys chatting, the other returning to his golf bag that is being visited by a stray dog:
No deep gab, flog mad dog! Goddam golf bag peed on!
Glad to have a place to put this.
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
I wrote a longer one, and once I was done I promptly lost it. It wasn't as lucid.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0972424431/
"A man, a plan, a canal, Panama"
"“Sir, I deliver. I’m a dog”
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I’m mad."
The very last one is, and the 2nd to last is, but the phrase "Sir, I deliver. I'm a dog" is not a palindrome....
Am I missing something?
A palindrome is a word or phrase which reads the same in both directions.
Sarah Palin is known to reverse positions and this leads to a "palin"drome story.
I wrote this story back in Sept.08
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Kayak salad: Alaska yak.
Must sell at tallest sum
Did I do, O God, did I as I said I'd do? Good, I did.
Dammit, I'm mad.
Name tarts? No, medieval slave, I demonstrate Man!
Raw was I ere I saw war.
Too far away, a war afoot.
No, I save on final perusal, a sure plan if no evasion.
No panic... I nap on
Oh who was it I saw, oh who?
so McCain: A maniac cmos
Yo! Banana boy!
Yo! Breed deer, boy!
Rot can rob a born actor.
Revered now I live on. O did I do no evil, I wonder ever?
Deny a god, O gay Ned
No, it never propagates if I set a gap or prevention.
No lemon, no melon.
No cab, no tuna nut on bacon.
No desserts, I stressed on
Is it I? It is I
I saw I was I
Too hot to hoot
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"Named undenominationally rebel, I rile Beryl? La, no! I tan! I'm, O Ned, nude, man!"
Maybe not the most brilliant ever, but any palindrome that uses a word as long as "undenominationally" deserves credit just for that.
reads like gibberish.
But I'm a math geek who failed english the same semester I got straight A's in trig.
BOB
I, man, am regal a German am I
Never odd or even
If I had a hi-fi
Madam, I'm Adam
Too hot to hoot
No lemons, no melon
Too bad I hid a boot
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Warsaw was raw
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Rise to vote, sir
Do geese see God?
"Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men," I nod
Rats live on no evil star
Won't lovers revolt now?
Race fast, safe car
Pa's a sap
Ma is as selfless as I am
May a moody baby doom a yam?
Ah Satan sees Natasha
No devil lived on
Lonely Tylenol
Not a banana baton
No "x" in "Nixon"
O, stone, be not so
O Geronimo, no minor ego
"Naomi", I moan
"A Toyota's a Toyota"
A dog, a panic in a pagoda
Oh, no! Don Ho!
Nurse, I spy gypsies -- run!
Senile felines
Now I see bees I won
UFO tofu
We panic in a pew
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog
I doubt "computationally crazy" would be any different from this dreck. It would be just as senseless.
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You know what, I somehow prefer Damien Martin's
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider… eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Good!
Why do so many sites say this is 224 words?
It is 222 words.
I guess they’re counting “dammit” as two words?
In that case, it should be 225 – not 224 – as Goddam should be two words as well.
That said, I think it's wonderful.
Tie? Gap? Martin, it rams awards. Draw a "smart" in it. Rampage it.
He's a spill 'o good: "oo" go, l' lips as I "eh?!"