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		raldi on March 31, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets? I think the highest forum of poetry is the double-dactyl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl). Here's one I wrote in 2010 about reddit: `Hexis-a-plexis, A- -lexis Ohanian Started a website with His best friend Steve. Then after selling it, Conde Nast management's Ultrashortsightedness Forced them to leave`

schoen on March 31, 2015 [–]

Don't forget the clerihew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerihew

I once wrote one about Jon Johansen (although that was only my second-best-known poem about him).

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