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Unread 01-29-2009, 02:52 AM
Robin-Kemp Robin-Kemp is offline
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Oh, Mark, you did have to go there...!

Results for the poem you mentioned, with lines by the following girlypoet dilettantes, artfully arranged into a rabid feminist poetics screed by yours truly:

E Bishop, Pink Dog (Rio de Janeiro): Naked, you trot across the avenue.
Suzanne Noguere, The Scribes: upon the page as if light filtered through

Mary Jo Salter, What Do Women Want?: stops short to raise two cones, one in each hand,
Carolyn Kizer, Three: In the expectation of glory: she writes like a man!


Suzanne Noguere, Whirling Round the Sun: Sometimes it seems almost beyond belief
Marilyn Hacker, Eight Days in April: I broke a glass, got bloodstains on the sheet.


Mary Kinzie, Ringing Words: "Forget," said the voice politic, "that place/
Suzanne Noguere, The Scribes: that is its usefulness. It is the space
Marilyn Taylor, II. Porter Powell's Wife: and slaps me, hard, three times across the face.

Carolyn Kizer, Two (from Pro Femina): Meanwhile, have you used your mind today?
Molly Peacock, Anger Sweetened: we caught and candied it so it would stay
Marilyn Taylor, How Aunt Eudora Became a Post-Modern Poet: Remember, you're a girl. So write that way.

The results?...

Words: 98
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 90
Male Score: 165

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Q.E.D.
Robin

Last edited by Robin-Kemp; 01-29-2009 at 02:58 AM. Reason: fix line order
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