You'll get more than you're asking for without the right protection

[sovay]

From conversation with fleurdelis28 and experimentation with the Livejournal Haiku Generator, we have come to the conclusion that she's got the Book of Common Prayer living in her livejournal, and I've got a Beat poet. Or possibly a stray Imagist. The jury's still out.

(Cut for some surprisingly nice imagery, considering we're seven syllables up from a Markov generator here.)

about right and she
was not of their stories i don't
think it was still light

putting words down on
paper for figuring out
what on earth came next

way more amused [or "amuséd," if you want scansion . . .]
by it than i or any of
my photographs are

at least two of the
holocaust it is later
than i have someone

also listed in
french dutch and something else that
i could interview

of a cult status
before the translators come
knocking at my door

story and you will
be photographs till then i
leave the house that will

grows poison ivy in
ornamental gardens sue
me i'm chalking it

whom i may dream leaves
light wake wood something here
will eventually

c minor if you
were to include a cd with
the second printing

you can't control who
you love even if it left
me a version just

maybe it's all subtext
but these are your dreams among
my dreams a small child

its rail and scanned
the streetside than the dead ones
from context i am

i had hoped she
would be awesome i think
the line between fact

sex in a time when
most people only ever
took the trains to there

are our friends the book
it would have to go through and
rifle all the times

holidays through the
book meme ominous drumroll
please total number

and music than film
if you asked me for this
meme include walter

we were lucky to
escape from the galleries of
deities and demigods

at the minute i
may be even cooler than
simply collecting


About half of these really sound as though they deserve stories, or might be small stories themselves. (And you should see some of fleurdelis28's.) I'll have to go back sometime and see what I can do. Unless anyone out there wants to take over the job . . .

P.S: For an article headlined "UK Targeted for Massive Trojan Attacks," I am very disappointed at the dearth of angry Iliadic warriors.

Comments

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Book of Common Prayer Fortune Cookie, thank you very much!

[sovay]

Don't forget American Poet Fake Sindarin . . .

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I get:

only in the air
the great joseph wright author
of the edd let me

Nine

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

These are great, both individually and as sequence.

I wonder whether the person who made the script has changed things a bit. Verbs are abandoned less often now (as I recall).

[sovay]

This is my first extensive encounter with the haiku generator—did it use to work differently?

I was contemplating attempting to a start a meme wherein you create stories around your livejournal haiku, because so many of these seemed to suggest moments in a narrative, but I didn't think anybody other than me would go for it . . .

[grailquestion.livejournal.com]

Hah. Suddenly I'm reminded of the fake history of Britain that tied its founding to the fall of Troy. Gotta love fake histories.

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

It looked exactly the same, but the results were fragmentary more often--third line dropping off mid-phrase, e.g.

That is, I'm guessing that my flist has not begun en masse to write posts that lend themselves better to the generator, though it's possible. ;)

It's a lovely idea for a meme! I don't know how many would take it up, though.

[kraada.livejournal.com]

Heh. A lot of mine were crap, but I did like:

beef and not doing work
is only saved on this
my fundamental

latter is bad just
not as valuable as a
species than dogs or cats

all the life of life
is of a lot of insight
into the mind is

going to do well work
i pulled the plug months ago
and now it won't turn

and as a sign i should stop:

able to make the
depiction more accurate
i think that's enough

[sovay]

beef and not doing work
is only saved on this
my fundamental

That's awesome.

[sovay]

Hey, they nicked that from the Romans!

[diony.livejournal.com]

we were lucky to
escape from the galleries of
deities and demigods

That, that is a story just waiting to happen, or perhaps the caption for a painting, or a necklace made by elisem.

[sovay]

I was really impressed by that one. And I'm not sure I can do it justice!

or a necklace made by elisem.

Yeah. Can one retroactively create an Artist's Challenge?

[diony.livejournal.com]

Why not? I thought about pointing her to it, honestly, it seems just so made for a haiku necklace...

[sovay]

I thought about pointing her to it

If you would like to, feel free! I'll just sit here and feel undeservingly honored on the part of a random haiku generator. : )