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Do not read this verse

Write the previous verse twice

without the first line.

Each time start a new verse.

Write the previous verse twice

without the first line.

Each time start a new verse.

Arrange "read not verse do this"

in length order

with "this" after "read"

(alphabetical order will work too).

Place them at the start of verse one

and then write this verse as verse three.

Take the next verse, ignore line one.

Write "won wow now"

in reverse and arrange the lines

neatly so they spell "twins" acrostically.

Scribe this as a new verse.

Write this verse as a new verse

and then ignore it.

in reverse and arrange the lines

Take the next verse, ignore line one.

Scribe this as a new verse.

neatly so they spell "twins" acrostically.

Write "won wow now"

As a new verse, write out this line

and this one and the next and the next,

followed by line four in English

and line three in French.

I am a poem.

Je suis un poème.

I am a poem

and I can self replicate.

But not perfectly.




Some things are hard to write but Aaron found that this poem pretty much wrote itself. Aaron writes on his daily train trip so that he doesn't go mad with boredom. He apologises for his sense of humour. You may view the author's website at http://snippetsofeverything.wordpress.com/.
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