10 sats \ 2 replies \ @didiplaywell 22 May \ on: "How to Meditate" by Jack Kerouac BooksAndArticles
Remember that the secret for a good poem in Markdown is to write everything in italics:
How to Meditate
by Jack Kerouac
-lights out-
fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous
ecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine,
the gland inside of my brain discharging
the good glad fluid (Holy Fluid) as
i hap-down and hold all my body parts
down to a deadstop trance-Healing
all my sicknesses-erasing all-not
even the shred of a "I-hope-you" or a
Loony Balloon left in it, but the mind
blank, serene, thoughtless. When a thought
comes a-springing from afar with its held-
forth figure of image, you spoof it out,
you spuff it off, you fake it, and
it fades, and thought never comes-and
with joy you realize for the first time
"thinking's just like not thinking-
So I don't have to think
any
more"
I'm not a fan of italicizing poems because poets themselves often use italics within their poetry (see this example). I assume they they wanted their poems in plain fonts if that's how they formatted them.
The more complicated issue with poetry in Markdown is getting intents and spacing correct, since unlike italics, it's not something Markdown always handles gracefully.
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