May 16, 2013

A poem about the future of America using anagrams of "Ta-Nehesi Coates"

Found in the comments::

just a nobody said...

here is a short poem about the future of america using anagrams of ta-nehisi coates for 9 lines. it was fun.

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america!

hi-octane? siesta?

oh, cease titans!
and
associate thine
atheistic aeons
with
nacho satieties.

america!

his taco is eaten!

incite hate so as
to chains, tease i.

see: I toast china

14 comments:

  1. Bravo. Well done.

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  2. I propose Hi-Octane Siesta be Ta-Nehisi Coates's new iSteve nickname. Bloomborg, Hi-Octane Siesta -- someday, Steve can write a Waugh-inspired novel and use these as character names.

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  3. Poetry is a literary construct by the looks of it.

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  4. Chances are good that the author has IQ double that of Ta-Nehesi Coates.

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  5. a Newsreader5/16/13, 8:01 PM

    Truly commendable.

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  6. Well that is just pure inspiration, so here's more on the theme, we just need to start a contest:


    Ta-Nehesi!
    the overseer with the
    Whip is around
    the corner so run anywhere but
    not Tennessee!

    Ta-Nehesi!
    in Africa there's
    Peace and Justice
    Well just about everywhere so it's
    not Tennessee!

    Ta-Nehesi!
    but somehow you're
    still in America well
    everybody's got to live somewhere
    at least for you that's
    not Tennessee!

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  7. Oops, I forgot my title:
    "Epater les blancs"

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  8. His milkshake is drunk and his taco is eaten.

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  9. just a nobody5/17/13, 4:00 AM

    many thanks!

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  10. I just wanted to mention that Ta-Nehisi Coates banned me from commenting in The Atlantic because he's a punk little punk bitch who doesn't want to be challenged.

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  11. Brilliant.

    "Hi-octane siesta" sounds like a great descriptor for a nation like Mexico - or eventually the United States - that exhibits the qualities of dilligent lassitude and oustanding mediocrity.

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  12. Dr Van Nostrand5/18/13, 11:59 AM


    Chances are good that the author has IQ double that of Ta-Nehesi Coates."

    Not really a compliment, that may still put him in double digits!

    In any event, very clever,ingenious and droll from just a nobody

    Anagram is increasingly a lost art!
    a haiku anagram is a twofer!

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