This week, we noticed another category of verse that our machine learning algorithm can identify: rap lyrics. An editorial arguing that rap lyrics should not be used as evidence of a crime because they are primarily artistic expression inspired this exchange:
Maybe R. Ceus will post more comments—his lyrics are especially fresh among all the limericks! Our algorithm was able to identify rap, but it missed these haiku, something it can usually find:
This one probably slipped through the cracks because it contains special characters like / & #, which are normally a clue that a comment isn't a poem. Thanks, Twitter.
Read on for more of this week's poems.
I do get a little tired of sifting through limericks, but Larry Eisenberg was especially sharp this week. He posted this on Paul Krugman's column arguing that people who view wealth as a reward for virtue avoid talking about the top one percent:
"Obsequious nod" and "judicious prod of the rod" belong in the limerick hall of fame. And on another Krugman column:
Is "passel of windbaggy schnorrers" fun to say, or what?
Technic Ally, another regular limerickist, wasn't satisfied with the Times' public editor's explanation of why the stylebook requires diacritical marks for some languages but not for others:
This intriguing comment poem was left on a Dot Earth post about a celebrity campaign against shark fin soup:
Finally, this response to Gail Collins' column about the Omnibus Spending Bill that was passed this week shows that some people are still upset about the New York Times website redesign (among other things):
I'm sure this isn't the last we'll hear about it.
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