short song #1

edglow by gadlor i am perennially terrible at actually completing songs – i tend to write small bits of them. i am going to attempt to write a bunch of complete (but short) songs in an effort to not do this any more. this is one of them.

Beluga ’84 – Rocky Mountain High School, Goodnews Bay, Alaska

In which the author, upon perusing a yard sale in central New Hampshire, happens upon the 1984 yearbook of a southeastern-Alaskan public high school for the low price of like, $1.00 or something (and buys it, duh): Photos, captions, excerpts, an audio recording and more below…

Exquisite Corpse with Cleverbot: Walt Whitman

In which a well-regarded poet collaborates with Cleverbot (a web-based application which builds its vocabulary from “conversations” held with real people) to assemble a brand new and, dare we say, exquisite poem. Here, lines from “I Sing the Body Electric” are selected using a random number generator, and Cleverbot complements each line with a reaction [...]