Stranger Than Fiction by moe.
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John: I just wrote a fun blog entry
John: I like putting line breaks at the end of a thought, even if it is mid sentence
Joe: haha nice
John: ya, I enjoyed it
John: almost makes it look like some sort of retarded poetry
Joe: retard poetry
Joe: it’s a whole new genre
John: lets take it literally, and just make poetry meant to be read really slowly
Joe: i don’t know how you would write something that communicates to the reader that it should be read slowly
John: just specify that it is retard poetry
Joe: that sounds a little circular
John: I’m thinking that when read slowly, it makes sounds and meanings that wouldn’t be apparent when read at normal speed
John: kind of like hidden messages
John: but retarded
Joe: hahahaha
Joe: i think you can find retarded hidden messages in any poetry if you read it right
John: then we ought to work on that
John: give this genre some legs
Joe: that seemed to be what my creative writing teacher was teaching
Joe: i don’t think i’d trust a poem with legs
Joe: “keep that creepy mutant poem away from me!”
Joe: before you know it they’ll have eyeballs and angry eyebrows
Joe: maybe a scraggly mouth
John: we could race poems against each other
Joe: the retard poems would always finish last
John: not if they were the only ones with legs
Joe: okay, so now it’s the poetry special olympics
Joe: “even if you win, you’re still retarded”
Joe: i’m pretty sure that’s the official special olympics slogan now
John: I’d go to the poetry special olympics
Joe: i think it’s at the same event as the physics special olympics
John: I don’t know where else to go with this joke
Joe: garbageman, garbageman…