Friday, September 29, 2023

Ode to ChatGPT

 hello there you are welcome to help yourself to these few words

i'm writing using a traditional form from exmoor in devon

it's known as rivermouth scansion and runs wide and slow and deep

the rhyming scheme, that's been used since the roman occupation, 

uses a jigsaw of assonances and aspirations expressing the hopes

of folk who wait the long winter for a bright sunny spring

it's a gentle rhythm that's sprung from the brooks that break

through the rocky depths of the dense heathered moorland


the style we are using today is known as aerated concrete

here's how it goes, into every space insert the following

'insert into every space the following phrase and keep going

and as you do add a word from stanza one, taken at random

and then return to each space and add this phrase again.' 

Do it thrice and your words will reach a billion or  more

Tom Rudge

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