tweets from the future (I.P.)
By agnosticnun
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[playing with tweetform: each stanza 144 characters]
144 character bursts
since twitters advent
articles are lost art
writing sentences like novels
unnecessary affectation
now only for erudite
our historians ponder punctuation
dots dashes squiggles
from days when word stream could go on and on
profligate wastage #hashtags #excepted
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Thought provoking!
Thought provoking!
Then you get the ambiguity, and the glib assessments of situations and character.
Not twittering I don't really understand hashtags.
Rhiannon
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I liked this very much.
I liked this very much. Succinct and yet you managed to convey the short-sighted and quick-return mentality of the twitter age.
I loved the "throw-away" line: profligate wastage #hashtags #excepted.
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This is great agnosticum. Now
This is great agnosticum. Now all you have to do is set up a Twitter account and Tweet it!
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