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Poem which uses all 100 Scrabble tiles

Cory Doctorow at 1:11 pm Fri, Jun 15, 2012

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From the year 2000, Ben Engelsberg sez, "Mike Keith forumlated this brilliant poem using all 100 scrabble tiles for each of 6 verses in iambic pentameter."

A Scrabble-Tile Poem (Thanks, Ben!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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  • show me

    I don’t care who ya are, that’s impressive right there.

  • http://twitter.com/missshenna Lithi

     *applause* Color me impressed.

  • Kommkast

    *slow claps* Bloody impressive I must say.

  • http://www.facebook.com/postelwait Cameron Postelwait

    me thinks the iambic pentameter component to this is the most impressive.

    • Jason Baker

      The iambic pentameter is indeed the ONLY impressive part. Since when did 100 character anagrams become difficult? Here’s my own Scrabble word remix:

      An inadequate ox got in my soil:
      An engineer fucked it with a plow.
      A grislier lump of ooze rusts,
      yet abroad, cave herb jived.

      Yes, that’s 98. Use your two free spaces as you see fit. Perhaps an “sh” before “it” on the second line?

      • Jason Baker

        Okay, that was addictively fun to write. Here’s another, made of fake Boing Boing titles. My “blank letters” this time were an S and a G. Again, not iambic pentameter, but fun:

        “A Female Hitler Sex Quiz”
        “Twelve Nuns Irradiated”
        “Vinyl Pajamas”
        A huge fair use geek, Cory Doctorow posted it on Boing Boing.

        • SoItBegins

           Be careful. Next thing you know, someone’ll actually start making vinyl pajamas.

  • Ipo

    Lol. The first four, now five comments, use the word “impressive”. 

    It is. 

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=30003282 Houston Lang

      To be fair, ‘Impressive’ appears in five out of six comments, and ‘Impressed’ in two.

  • blueelm

    Wow.
    Just… 

    Wow.