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Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
=About Wikipedia=
A service to knowledge
phil(Ambition wearing a coat of)anthropy.
'''''FREE'''''
d-e-m-o-c-r-a-t-i-c
that ne1 can [edit] [edit] [edit]
knowledge.com is not knowledge
neither is knowledge.org
''synthesis'' is not original research
but original research is not allowed anyway [citation needed]
[link] to the outside world
distorted by too many split p+e+r+s+o+n+a+l+i+t+i+e+s
and edit/wars
and VANDALS!!!!!
and n00bs.
Please see the discussion on the
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http://W3lcome 2 wikipedia, the junkyard of tr00th and liez!!1! that n-b-d-y can read
and n-b-d-y should
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Author notes
Experiment in dirty pretty. I guess it's only useful in a poem whose topic is the structure of thought/language. Hence: Wikipedia. The opinions expressed here are distortions of my own. If you are familiar with wikicode you may get more out of this poem. Or even try pasting it into Wikipedia's Sandbox 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_sandbox
Incidentally, this might be one of only three Allpoetry poems explicitly discussing the subject of Wikipedia. See also: http://allpoetry.com/poem/2272931 , http://allpoetry.com/poem/2656234
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I never thought I'd see you write dirty pretty.
Still, it was a very interesting and creative use of the form.
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That's a first for me.. an intelligent use of the 'dirty pretty' form. I usually see a mass of redundant punctuation abused around a page when there's any mention of this form. Good effort.
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I've never understood what 'dirty pretty' meant, but I really like the way you have handled it in this excellent free verse piece. Your sense of experimentation with langauge is wonderful.
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Here I stuck to a rule: "only use a dirty pretty technique where the technique conveys something obvious to the reader". In the few examples of dirty pretty I've seen, I could not ascribe any purpose to the use of dirty pretty. For the same reason I doubt I'll be working with it again, unless the topic screams out for it.
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