Times Haiku, an algorithm designed by the New York Times’s senior software architect, scans the day’s paper for any fragments of text that could be broken into a three-line, seventeen-syllable poem, then posts it to Tumblr. Brilliant!
Some highlights:
To many, the Mets
appear destined for a fifth
straight losing season.
His wife was his world
and his mother was his world
and his family.
As a leftover,
the soup was equally good
without the croutons.
Bowls haven’t changed in
any important way since
the Song dynasty.
Beautiful! Those last two are better than most poems by actual poets.
