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## Poem
This repository is a work-in-progress poem (a collection of cantos perhaps) written in the markdown syntax. It started as an attempt to expose my creative process (to myself and to anyone who may care to watch) and track the nature and number of edits a given version of an extended length poem might go through. I decided to use git (as opposed to some other tool like mediawiki) simply because it makes sense to me and it's a tool I use on a daily basis. I also found it affords a level of textual simplicty that more bloated CMS style tools loose in their effort to be complete publishing tools. In the process of thinking through the implications of using a code management toolchain to write poetry I became quite interested in exploring how true the old Wordpress tag "Code is Poetry" is and whether it runs in the inverse (ie "Poetry is Code").
This repository is a work-in-progress poem written in the markdown syntax. It started as an attempt to expose my creative process (to myself and to anyone who may care to watch) and track the nature and number of edits a given version of an extended length poem might go through. I decided to use git (as opposed to some other tool like mediawiki) simply because it makes sense to me and it's a tool I use on a daily basis. I also found it affords a level of textual simplicty that more bloated CMS style tools loose in their effort to be complete publishing tools. In the process of thinking through the implications of using a code management toolchain to write poetry I became quite interested in exploring how true the old Wordpress tag "Code is Poetry" is and whether it runs in the inverse (ie "Poetry is Code").
# And then this happened.
At some point in the very early onset of this experiment it became clear to me that I wasn't envisioning a collection of poems, but rather had stumbled on to a framework for my own exploration of a technically focused twenty-first century epic poem. While the actual content, themes, structure, are all to be determined, what seems clear to me at this point is that this is a definite attempt at coming up with a compositional technique that has something of the transparency of open source software.