Great Prank!

After class today, Josh stayed around and told me that he thought some of the lines in the generated poems came directly from Megadeth lyrics. I did some quick research, and I found that Josh was right. I don't know if every single line is from Megadeth, but the ones I tested were.

I would like to go on the record in saying that I believe the poems generated by random Megadeth lyrics are better than most poems in literary mags.   
So, yeah, I got punked (and so did my students in  a certain sense). I love this prank! It's very Beat, so it works conceptually. 

The Beats wanted to shake us out of our complacency and desire for comfort. This achieves that goal. We're all scratching our heads, thinking, "Hmmm, this is awfully dark." Well, yeah! It's Megadeth! Thanks, Josh!