Random Poetry -- A New MP3 Player Game

Stole this from Heather on (what else?) Facebook...And, wow, now that I just completed it, this actually sounds like an awesomely bad emo poem that would get published on someone's MySpace. How frightening that it comes from music I listen to...

1. Set your MP3 player on random
2. write down the first line of the first 20 songs
3. make spacing adjustments
4. copy down your poem

There's a hatchet, got a knife.
Every time I call you on the phone,
The wind hit my back, as cold as I remember.

In the howling wind comes a stinging rain,
And is this where we need to be.
This is the only lonely picture waiting on my floor.

What will people think when they hear that I'm a Jesus freak?

Do you have the time to listen to me whine?
She thinks I'm much too thin.
We made plans to be unbreakable.

Take my photo off the wall.
I hate feeling like this,
Over-zealous, to say the least.

Taking off, heading out of this town,
It feels right.
My breath smells of a thousand fags.

You think I'm crazy because I love you.

You listen in to what we have to say,
You're all just staring, angry faces, begging for a place to die.
Take this heart of darkness, I give it up.

*****

And, just because I'm a nerd, here are the songs they came from:

• Anberlin, "Never Take Friendship Personal," Never Take Friendship Personal
• Thousand Foot Krutch, "The Art of Breaking," The Art of Breaking
• Mat Kearney, "Wait," Nothing Left to Lose
• P.O.D., "Bullet the Blue Sky," The Fundamental Elements of Southtown
• P.O.D., "This Time," Testify
• Relient K, "I Just Want You to Know," The Birds and the Bee Sides
• Something Corporate, "Ruthless," North
• DC Talk, "Jesus Freak," Jesus Freak
• Green Day, "Basket Case," Dookie
• Jack's Mannequin, "Holiday from Real," Everything in Transit
• Mae, "Mistakes We Knew We Were Making," The Everglow
• Jet, "Look What You've Done,"Get Born
• Skillet, "Comatose," Comatose
• Five Iron Frenzy, "Most Likely to Succeed," Our Newest Album Ever
• MxPx, "More Everything," Before Everything and After
• Jack Johnson, "While We Wait," Sleep Through the Static
• Robbie Williams, "Strong," I've Been Expecting You
• MxPx, "Prozac," Let It Happen
• The Fold, "With You, I Sink," This Too Shall Pass
• Dead Poetic, "A Hoax to Live For," New Medicines
• Further Seems Forever, "Light Up Ahead," Hide Nothing

~The Original Fong~
**You wish you could pull off being me**

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