Monday, October 1, 2007

Bullfighter, Gore, Analytic Poetry

This website has some punchy writing. The theme is to get to the point in communication and avoid obscure jargon.

They have a page (Fight the Bull) to analyze texts for readability--you can paste writing in and get some scores and a generated report.

I put some poetry into the analysis and got a 'Flesch Readability Score' of 0, and a 'Bull Index' of 100.

"You overwhelmingly embrace obfuscation and don't want the reader to understand anything you have to say. Your writing lavishes a preponderance of dependent clauses and compound negatives upon the reader, whose cognitive load not infrequently exceeds the purported benefit of the substance of the article. Syntax incorporates numerous collections of items juxtaposed or in series that demand persistence and not a little unqualified expertise on the part of all intended recipients of the author's communications. In fact, such machinations inevitably prove detrimental to comprehension and sabotage the imparting of any and all knowledge. Your condition is irreversible."

I guess poetry just has no place in the world of matadors?

lady you are soft like whispers
soft like silver screen kiss scenes
soft like trees turn green
soft as pussy willow fingertips
can't stop thinking, what you said and what it means

lady you're sweet like honeybees
sweet you come to me
sweet like memories
sweet as simple words
thinking of what you said to me

lady you're deep as snowfall dreams
deep like having feelings
deep like rises cream
deep as ocean waves
a dream of you, and what it means

lady you move like motion is
you move me to easy bliss
move like diamond fists
lady you move like this and that
you said enough, and then we kissed

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