The VH1 Top 20 (4/23-29) As (Bad) Language Poetry

April 24, 2003 6 Comments by Stephen Macaulay

When I’m Gone: Unwell. The Remedy:

Sing for the Moment Like a Stone.

Clocks, Lights Out: Why, Georgia?

(Miss You, Fighter, Angel.)

I’m Glad; Come Away With Me: Rock Your Body, Beautiful.

Picture American Life:

Times Like These: Big Yellow Taxi Ignition.

For more awesome poetry, check out recent works by Donald Rumsfeld. Make up your own verse from VH1′s Top 20, and add it to the Comments below; it’s the new fridge magnet poetry!

6 Comments

  1. raw power
    3317 days ago

    !!!

    *flatlines*

  2. Helen
    3317 days ago

    This is funny…I have a Magnetic Fields set list on my bulletin board, and my dad recently thought it was a poem…I’ll have to post it later though…

  3. Ryan
    3317 days ago

    that is awesome. I love the Magnetic Fields and I would love to see the set list assumed to be a poem.

  4. BandyLou
    3317 days ago

    here’s a couple of standard 5/7/5 haikus:

    Miss you when i’m gone

    i’m glad – rock your body clock

    like a stone angel

    Beautiful running

    unwell ignition (remix)

    big yellow taxi

  5. Anonymous
    3277 days ago

    do with with a stick!!

    it’s all mine!!

  6. Anonymous
    3208 days ago

    I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT COUNTING CROWS CAME BACK WITH A BANG, AT LEAST TO ME THEY DID,WELL, BY THE LOOKS OF IT, MANY OTHERS DO AS WELL. SO AS LONG AS YOU STAY THE BEST AT MUSIC TV, (VH1) THEN WE WILL ALWAYS HEAR THE BEST. PEACE AND LOVE TO YOU ALL! WENDY S FOX

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