From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-09-07T07:35:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Poetry Jam 05: A Ruby Octet

Trans wrote:

>Cute... but do they run?
>  
>
Err... well, that's a pretty easy thing to check...

And there wouldn't be much fun in reading or writing it if not for 
having to conform to a certain set a rules (ruby syntax, in this case)*. 
You should figure out how my Matrix poem doesn't crash. Good fun.

See also:
http://redhanded.hobix.com/bits/haikuRb.html
http://redhanded.hobix.com/bits/rehaikurb.html

(Also, for those lurkers out there who are considering publishing my 
poems -- know that Thunderbird oddly stripped off exactly one leading 
space from all my lines, so it's not my fault they're all misaligned.)

Devin
*And yeah, that might just be my own oddity, but I doubt it.