Brinens and Things

copperbadge:

I thought today about a villanelle
I had an inspiration there and then
I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

It’s hard to keep the poems rigid shell
On track inside my mind, so when
I thought today about a villanelle

I thought about refrains re-rung like bells
And how simple it might be to begin;
I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

The line below these two, I brag to tell
Is simply coded as =A1
I thought today about a villanelle

And this stanza’s refrain, I needn’t spell
It out; it equals A3 and is done!
I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

I planned to use this better, really sell
The bit; but flew too closely to the sun.
I thought today about a villanelle
I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

[Description: The above text is pictured in individual cells in column A of an Excel spreadsheet. The sheet’s title in the workbook is “Sheet Two Villanelle” and to prove the truth of how it was constructed, Cell A23 is selected; at the top of the image you can see that it does not actually contain any text, but just the Excel formula “=A1″. This is probably Art, somehow.]

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#poetry #oh my god