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geek

A friend of mine wrote a twitter bot that spits out random bits of RFCs, somewhat inspired by horse_ebooks, and I suggested it would be nice if it wrote haiku, so now it does. It's not very good at it, but I found this almost poem in the feed:

Townson makes it has
the switch functions
02 Elgamal public key

And now I really want to write a haiku including the words "elgamal public key" -- pity "exchange" doesn't fit that into a 7-syllable line.

Some of the more intentional poetry it's written:

to authenticate the
already done our paper we have
home address found

It's almost poignant. Or Yoda crossed with Glinda the good witch, whatever.