What is the ginsberg bot flock?
The ginsberg bot flock is a flock of twitter bots that each tweet the entire contents of different Allen Ginsberg poems, tweeting the poem one line at a time.
The flock is implemented in Python and uses the rainbow mind machine library.
For more information about bots and bot flocks, see bots.charlesreid1.com.
Find the bots on twitter at the ginsberg bot flock twitter list
@gbf_america • @gbf_auntrose • @gbf_chicago • @gbf_cosmo • @gbf_dc • @gbf_deathfame • @gbf_deathfronts • @gbf_ecologue • @gbf_elegy • @gbf_fiveam • @gbf_greyhound • @gbf_hospital • @gbf_howl • @gbf_kaddish • @gbf_lion • @gbf_money • @gbf_organ • @gbf_sunflower • @gbf_supermarket
Why build the ginsberg bot flock?
The ginsberg bot flock was built to help drown out some of the noise on Twitter, and to provide a juxtaposition of Allen Ginsberg poetry with the latest goings-on in the Twitter timeline.
Everybody's serious - everybody but me.
— America (@gbf_america) April 29, 2018
I'm not sorry.
— America (@gbf_america) April 29, 2018
I can't stand my own mind.
— America (@gbf_america) April 28, 2018
Eyes more intelligent glanced up to death newspapers
— Elegy Che Guevara (@gbf_elegy) April 29, 2018
Board Directors of United Fruit
— Elegy Che Guevara (@gbf_elegy) April 28, 2018
Smog-Manufacturing Trustees of Chicago U
— Elegy Che Guevara (@gbf_elegy) April 28, 2018
Acheson's mustache, Truman's bony hat
— Elegy Che Guevara (@gbf_elegy) April 28, 2018
To go mad and hide in jungle on mule and point rifle at OAS
— Elegy Che Guevara (@gbf_elegy) April 28, 2018
Which way does your beard point tonight?
— A Supermarket in CA (@gbf_supermarket) April 29, 2018
--and you, García Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?
— A Supermarket in CA (@gbf_supermarket) April 28, 2018
bed-bug death-oil. Who'll soak my brain with death-oil?
— Death On All Fronts (@gbf_deathfronts) April 29, 2018
say Revolutionary expert Computers:
— Death On All Fronts (@gbf_deathfronts) April 29, 2018
who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge this actually happened and walked away unknown and forgotten into the ghostly daze of Chinatown soup alleyways and firetrucks, not even one free beer,
— Howl (@gbf_howl) April 29, 2018
who jumped in limousines with the Chinaman of Oklahoma on the impulse of winter midnight streetlight smalltown rain,
— Howl (@gbf_howl) April 29, 2018
and I sang Spanish loyalist songs
— Aunt Rose (@gbf_auntrose) April 29, 2018
in a high squeaky voice
— Aunt Rose (@gbf_auntrose) April 29, 2018
(hysterical) the committee listening
— Aunt Rose (@gbf_auntrose) April 29, 2018
github.com/charlesreid1-bots/ginsberg-bot-flock
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