Dear Poetry Consumer,
To better serve your needs,<br />
This poem is interactive.
First, be alliterative:
[[ah]] [[lit]] [[terat]] [[ive]]You want assonance.
Not consonance.
Soft squishy vowels like
Biting into bowels like
[[a]]
[[e]]
[[i]]
[[o]]
[[u]]
<% $consonant = "l"; %>
<% $noun = "labia"; %>
Licking luscious lovely lies <br />
Linger on your thighs the<br />
Light<br />
Lets us let us<br />
Last.<br />
[[tumble words around]] <% $consonant = "t"; %>
<% $noun = "torent"; %>
Trying and treeing and tantruming the<br />
Trite tortuous tyrant of<br />
Terse <br />
Terms<br />
to <br />
try.<br />
[[tumble words around]] <% $consonant = "v"; %>
<% $noun = "vein"; %>
Velvet views <br />
Very voluable varnish that<br />
Varies in volume every <br />
variant<br />
veries<br />
variety.<br />
[[tumble words around]] <% $consonant = "a"; %>
<% $noun = "artichoke"; %>
Carry it at the apex of an apple.<br />
Add accent against all manner and
[[tumble words around]]<% $consonant = "e"; %>
<% $noun = "eggplant"; %>
Excellent. Each ego eats exactly.<br />
Deep.
Deeper.
Beat it in your ears.
[[tumble words around]] <% $consonant = "i"; %>
<% $noun = "icicle"; %>
Icky, itchy, it's its own <br />
idiosyncratic idiom.
[[tumble words around]] <% $consonant = "o"; %>
<% $noun = "opal"; %>
Open and yowling, you own whole worlds of woe.<br />
Owls and ocelots. Lots of pots.<br />
Ousted, once, and once lost.
[[tumble words around]] <% $consonant = "u"; %>
<% $noun = "umber hulk"; %>
Under ugly, gutteral utterances:<br />
uulations of laughter. Lounging. Louche. Lush. Lust.<br />
You, lucky u, are unique.
[[tumble words around]] Pick some words you like for their own sake:<br />
Subtle to pronounce like “insouciant” or<br />
Lush and solid like “grape.”
<% ending = "grape"; %>
Pick a metaphor that will best help you accept your own, inevitable, demise:
<div id="form">
<select name="demise" id="demise">
<option value="monkey"> </option>
<option value="cloud">A cloud shaped like a fish was never caught</option>
<option value="season">Winter melts to Spring melts to Winter</option>
<option value="matrix">We are a simulation on a computer</option>
<option value="power">Truth, Beauty, Love</option>
</select>
<br />
You must<br />
<button type="button" onclick="demize()">Accept Your Own Demise</button></div>
<div id="move" style="display:none">
You are a <span id="grape"> </span>.
Shaped like the letter "<%= $consonant %>." <br />
<%= $noun %>! you are you: <%= $noun %>, <%= $consonant %>...
[[was this fun]]?
</div>
<script>
function demize() {
ending = document.getElementById("demise").value;
document.getElementById('move').style.display='block';
document.getElementById('form').style.display='none';
document.getElementById('grape').innerHTML= ending;
}
</script><div id="tear1" style="display:none"><img src="drop1.jpg" /></div>
<div id="rant" style="display:block">If (anyone has ever suffered as you have), <br />
Describe this suffering in detail: <br />
<input type="text"> <br />
Else <br />
{be bitter.} </div>
... <div id="tear2" style="Display:none"> <img src="drop2.jpg" /></div>
<button id="cry" type="button" onclick="cryFunc()" > Cry. </button>
<div id="tear3" style="Display:none" >
<img src="drop3.jpg"> </div>
<div id="tear4" style="display:none"> [[Your tears run dry.]] </div>
<% i = 1; %>
<script>
function cryFunc()
{
document.getElementById('tear'+i).style.display='block';
i++;
if (i==4) {
document.getElementById('tear4').style.display='block';
document.getElementById('cry').style.display='none';
document.getElementById('rant').style.display='none';
}
return i;
}
</script>No, it was fun. It was playing in the mud. <br />
Repetition <br />
Builds meaning: <br />
<hr />
Dear Poetry Consumer,
To better serve your needs, <br />
This poem is interactive. <br />
<div id="endMonkey" style="display:none;">Even if you chose not to decide.</div>
<div id="endCloud" style="display:none;">Filtered around you like mist.</div>
<div id="endSeason" style="display:none;">Your footstep in melting snow.</div>
<div id="endMatrix" style="display:none;">(Or you serve its needs.)</div>
<div id="endPower" style="display:none;">Truth is beauty.</div>
Don't just read:<br />
<div id="aLine" style="Display:none;"> Carry it at the apex of an apple.</div>
<div id="lLine" style="Display:none;"> Lick its luscious lovely lies.</div>
<div id="tLine" style="Display:none;"> Try tasting its trite terms. </div>
<div id="vLine" style="Display:none;"> Vary its voluable varnish</div>
<div id="eLine" style="Display:none;"> Beat it in your ears.</div>
<div id="iLine" style="Display:none;"> Its own idiosyncratic idiom.</div>
<div id="oLine" style="Display:none;"> Oust it, once, and once be lost.</div>
<div id="uLine" style="Display:none;"> Lounge in it. Be louche. Lush.</div>
The <%= $noun %> incrementing. <br />
See, plus plus: <br />
(Just kidding; I Javascripted) <br />
<div id="aLine2" style="Display:none;"> Accented jargon applied.</div>
<div id="lLine2" style="Display:none;"> Line by line, linear.</div>
<div id="tLine2" style="Display:none;"> Tokens taken and tagged.</div>
<div id="vLine2" style="Display:none;"> Arrived by variables.</div>
<div id="eLine2" style="Display:none;"> Semicolons exaunt;</div>
<div id="iLine2" style="Display:none;"> Incremented, indexed.</div>
<div id="oLine2" style="Display:none;"> Shook it to sudo root.</div>
<div id="uLine2" style="Display:none;"> Underscore, this unit.</div>
You are an insouciant <%= ending %>, <br />
And thank you for playing.
<script>
if ($consonant=="a") {
document.getElementById('aLine').style.display='block';
document.getElementById('aLine2').style.display='block';
}
else if ($consonant=="l")
{
document.getElementById('lLine').style.display='block';
document.getElementById('lLine2').style.display='block';
}
else if ($consonant=="t")
{
document.getElementById('tLine').style.display='block';
document.getElementById('tLine2').style.display='block';
}
else if ($consonant=="v")
{
document.getElementById('vLine').style.display='block';
document.getElementById('vLine2').style.display='block';
}
else if ($consonant=="e")
{
document.getElementById('eLine').style.display='block';
document.getElementById('eLine2').style.display='block';
}
else if ($consonant=="i")
{
document.getElementById('iLine').style.display='block';
document.getElementById('iLine2').style.display='block';
}
else if ($consonant=="o")
{
document.getElementById('oLine').style.display='block';
document.getElementById('oLine2').style.display='block';
}
else if ($consonant=="u")
{
document.getElementById('uLine').style.display='block';
document.getElementById('uLine2').style.display='block';
}
if (ending=="monkey") {
document.getElementById('endMonkey').style.display='block';
}
else if (ending=="cloud") {
document.getElementById('endCloud').style.display='block';
}
else if (ending=="season") {
document.getElementById('endSeason').style.display='block';
}
else if (ending=="matrix") {
document.getElementById('endMatrix').style.display='block';
}
else if (ending=="power") {
document.getElementById('endPower').style.display='block';
}
</script>