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Instructions: Enter booth, deposit
coins, speak into microphone. Pause
when you wish to begin a new line,
longer for stanza breaks. Press
buttons for desired punctuation marks
and capital letters. Machine can
distinguish between homonyms (words
that sound alike, like "I" and "eye").

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##########Thank You##########Ready

testing one two

oh agnes our love will be
ever lasting
comma

oh

damn

,

oh agnes our love will be
ever lasting, our hearts will always
beat as one

I hope

I hope that if you die before me
my heart will come following yours
love john

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##########Thank You##########Ready

heydiddlediddlespiddlediddlespiddlediddle
spiddlepoodlebiddlespiddlebiddlepoo

yeahyeah

beebopdeedoobabababadeebeedoodoodoo
doodoo

tssstsss

rabidibi dibidadadada

rappapapapapatssstsss

lapidoopidoopidoopidada

stop

oh man this thing's cool

##########Thank You##########Ready

hey mom look at this

can I play this mom

wait

can I have a quarter mom
please

wait mom it's still on
wait

somebody left it on

wait mom it's writing everything I

##########Thank You##########Ready

I

I

I

I hurts

my eye hurts

no I hurts as in my eye hurts

hah
stupid piece of shit

let's get out of here

##########Thank You##########Ready

I have seen best friends beaten

no

I have seen the best anuses

no no

I have seen the best movies

no now let's see

I have seen the best minds

yeah

I have seen the best minds of my generation
yeah

I have seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,
starving hysterical naked
yeah
okay

I saw the best minds of my uh
excuse me sir the store's closing you'll have to leave

what time is it

twelve o'clock sir you can come back tomorrow

okay just let me get this paper

how do you stop this thing

I don't know what it is about this poem, maybe just that it took me by surprise...

If I were an editor, I'd be moving it right now. Excellent write.

-O

Love this, Jay. Will leave it here now, but it's got to go up.

milner

Jay D.:

This would make an interesting short play -- one act, three (or four) scenes. 

CEO

man, i wish i wrote this!  witty, inventive, funny...jay, you knocked the cover off the ball with this one!  home run!

This piece has balls.
Quite superb, fair play

We don't want you gettin' the big-head, but I got gotta add to votes on its wit and humor. I just got the July issue of Poetry and its dedicated to humor as was last year's issue. With one exception, it doesn't have anything quite as knee-slappin' as this.

larry

as far as i'm concerned you can just keep this posted on the front page forever and ever, amen!  lock the door and throw away the key.  it just doesn't get any better than this. 

MY God! I want a poem machine.

Wow, I am ass. I mean ass pounded. NO I mean astounded!

lol @ mikael.  it is funny isn't it.  i like the 'oh shit' part first...then the eye/I part...and the last part...well I can just imagine Ginsberg breaking in a poem machine.  it'd be awesome.  it would never be satisfied again.

cheryl

don't know how I missed this, Jay
put a howl into my morning coffee

love it,
Stella