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Mar. 25th, 2007 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanI am sick and may die. So I pass along the work of another, to keep you entertained.
*Howl Twitter* (with abject apologies to Allen Ginsberg)
I saw the best posters of my generation destroyed by politics,
commenting hysterical naked,
scrolling themselves through the n-word threads at dawn looking for
a snarky fix,
trucker-hatted hipsters burning for the cheapest DSL
connection to the bitwise dynamo in the datastream of night,
who pizza and tater-tots and poopsocking and high sat up typing in
the supernatural whiteness of rented condos surfing across the tubes
of internets contemplating porn,
who bared their breasts on MySpace under fake names and saw
Mohammedan bombers threatening in video streams illuminated,
who played through universities with radiant eyes
hallucinating Second Life and Warcraft tragedy among the scholars of
war,
who were banned from the websites for crazy & posting batshitinsane
on the Windows™ of the Bill,
who farted in unshaven rooms in underwear,
tossing their tissues in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror on
CNN...
From stavrostthewonderchicken on
http://emptybottle.org/glass/2007/03/not_a_howl_a_twitter.php
(link courtesy, as usual, of Walter Jon Williams. keep him off the internet -- buy his books!)
*Howl Twitter* (with abject apologies to Allen Ginsberg)
I saw the best posters of my generation destroyed by politics,
commenting hysterical naked,
scrolling themselves through the n-word threads at dawn looking for
a snarky fix,
trucker-hatted hipsters burning for the cheapest DSL
connection to the bitwise dynamo in the datastream of night,
who pizza and tater-tots and poopsocking and high sat up typing in
the supernatural whiteness of rented condos surfing across the tubes
of internets contemplating porn,
who bared their breasts on MySpace under fake names and saw
Mohammedan bombers threatening in video streams illuminated,
who played through universities with radiant eyes
hallucinating Second Life and Warcraft tragedy among the scholars of
war,
who were banned from the websites for crazy & posting batshitinsane
on the Windows™ of the Bill,
who farted in unshaven rooms in underwear,
tossing their tissues in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror on
CNN...
From stavrostthewonderchicken on
http://emptybottle.org/glass/2007/03/not_a_howl_a_twitter.php
(link courtesy, as usual, of Walter Jon Williams. keep him off the internet -- buy his books!)
