For poets, the future’s a place
Where meter and rhyme are debased
Despite years of thinking
Not one has an inkling
Of how to pronounce 😄


“MAN SCARING YOUNG CHILDREN WITH BEARD”
“DEPTHS OF THE COSMOS”
“FLESH, SEARED”
“ONE EYEBALL, EXPANDING, CONTROLLING, DEMANDING”

…emoji have sure gotten weird.


Emoji in header image from Twemoji (CC BY 4.0)