In honor of National Poetry Month, Mayor Bloomberg has been holding his second annual Twitter poetry "Poetweet" contest. Through April 13th, poems written on Twitter with the tag #poetweet will be considered for publication in Metro for Poem in Your Pocket day on April 14. But why wait? Here are some of the best poems to come out of the Twitterverse:
- Cathie Black caught a lot of flack, now Dennis Walcott will get a crack. Qualified NYC School Chancellors is the new black. [@BKpolitics]
- Pizzafalafel/corndogwaffle/reubenroti/porkbaupierogi/Can’t make my mind up/what to have for lunch? [@guruoftheues]
- Writing this ditty / on the way to Citi / Hope the #Mets win / even if it isn't pretty! [@CityHallNews]
- Neighbor borrows spoon from me a month ago. Now his door has eviction notice posted. I doubt I'll be seeing that spoon again. [@ecafypah]
- roses are red, violets are blue you're a 3-term mayor whats the deal with you? [@HW Geeks]
Any poems that are clean and under 140 characters are eligible for the mayor's contest. And of course (fake!) Marty Markowitz had to get in on the action: "They say only the dead know Brooklyn, it's true/but if you aren't from Brooklyn/I don't want to know you." What, no puns?
