Someone boss-ish at work made it so we can't log into Myspace ... so we're all joining Facebook sshhhhhhhhhhh.
My friend Michael wrote a poem about Facebook yesterday (part of the One Poem Per (Month) policy he just instated). I've pasted it below.
Enjoy Mike's poem.
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The background is that I got a Facebook account as "Michael Smyth" (with help from my sister, Abigail) and I had just recently surpassed Abby's friend total (my goal) when Facebook rudely disabled my account for unspecified reason(s).
Dear Facebook:
Faaaaaaaaaah-Q
A "social networking site"
Without you-know-who?
You're sorely lacking
In human capital
And you'll soon shrivel
Like a sunless daffodil
Where's your Smyth
To keep it lively
To deliver pokes
Decidedly spryly?
What to say to
All your members
Now sans Smyth
In a cold November?
No heartfelt messages
No soothing pokes
The wheels fall off
Without the spokes
Smyth brought passion
Smyth had game
Smyth made Facebook
A tad less lame
And, that, my friends
Is no easy task
Think Montresor's work
In Poe's "The Cask"
Now Facebook is burying
Itself alive
Walled off from the Smyth
It needs to survive
All those with Facebook
Will be deprived
Of a unique talent
That had arrived
700 friends
Just lost a pal
My Hispanic amigos
Call it "muy mal"
What new $1 "gift"
Will Facebook contrive
To shift your thoughts
From its impending dive?
The growth stops now
The apex is here
It's post-Pretty Woman
For Richard Gere
Without its keystone
The arch can't hold
The weight of Smyth-lovers
In numbers untold
Facebook will die
Of that I'm sure
Or it can live on
As a fugly whore
So fah-Q Facebook
You do treachery well
Please enjoy eternity
In the ninth circle of hell.
November 7, 2007 2:40pm
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