Applications of Natural Selection
With all the debates on the teaching of creationism, evolution, and intelligent design this year, it’s good to know that some people take a more humorous approach to natural selection. Darwinian poetry is a project which asks a daring question – can the input of users cause inherently bad poetry to evolve into something better? By applying their own method of natural selection, the project hopes to create one of the most impossible aspects of any language – a good poem.
From the site:
The natural selection process occurs when a random peruser of the site picks one of two poems. Users are invited to vote on poem preferences in order to help the progression of poem society. Eventually the bad poems die off, while new poems are created when the good ones… well… I’ll tell you when you’re older.
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Yikes. That is some bad poetry.
But alas
I am one that poetry
ongoing and boring
irritates me.