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comment by _refugee_
_refugee_  ·  3452 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 9th Triumphant Biweekly Let's Hear a Quote from Your Recent Reading Whatever

I think you can kinnear[1] it with quotes. Lemme try:

    SONG (I'm stuck in traffic)

      
      I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab    
      which is typical  
      
      and not just of modern life

      mud clambers up the trellis of my nerves
      must lovers of Eros end up with Venus  
      muss es sein? es muss nicht sein, I tell you
      
      how I hate disease, it's like worrying
      that comes true
      and it simply must not be able to happen  
      
      In a world where you are possible  
      my love  
      nothing can go wrong for us, tell me.
Put it in quotes and put two spaces before each line and it looks easier. I've found that putting stuff in quotes tends to override some other native formatting (like line spacing) a little bit.

[1] This word is really a last name which has been made into a verb because of a lovely woman, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, who is also known as the Yarn Harlot. I completely bastardize the verb and use it to mean "rig" or "work in a way it is not supposed to work [surreptitiously; to bypass through crafty methods the way something is supposed to work]."





nowaypablo  ·  3450 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Aha! Thanks for the tip. I will be sure to stick that word somewhere in my next English essay to make my english teacher squeal in delight.