I wasn't wild about Bill's poem, but only because I wasn't savvy enough to make heads or tails of it. From the title on down, it referred to things only recognizable to initiates of Reddit--one of many venues which my life is quite rich without--so all the in-jokes sailed over my head and I could only evaluate the poem at face value.
That's the trouble with technology--you miss one or two new developments and suddenly you're up a creek, and don't even understand why you can't get something to work. And those developments come quickly, greatly reducing the shelf life of any poem that relies too heavily on them.
I deliberated between having someone refer to "my daughter's MySpace page" and "my daughter's Facebook page" in a poem written in 2007...finally bet on MySpace as being the platform more likely to last...and by the time the damn thing was published, it was already out of date. Since the poem had been a competition finalist, I wasn't allowed to change it from what the judge had seen two years earlier. Sigh. That experience has made me wary of painting a poem into a corner with technological references that may or may not age well.
Last edited by Julie Steiner; 03-23-2015 at 12:00 AM.
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