If Maury Povich Were in Charge

[Nester]

Nester - are you using computers as a metaphor for all society? I'm not sure - I'm intrigued but a little confused. In my experience poetry can accommodate some unusual forms, and I think you've fallen under the umbrella of what is poetic (maybe barely). I do think you need to make this a little more available to the laymen. I think this would confuse most people. It's inventive though - well done on that.

Hope this is helpful.

- Matt

Thanks, Teagan and Matt, for your comments. Teagan, I'm happy you got at least some of the references: I realized about a day after posting this that the vast majority of people are going to have no idea what I'm talking about. The basic idea is "Maury Povich has uses Big Data to settle paternity questions." "SQL injection", "multiple packets", etc. are networking terms that to me sounded somewhat risque. P and NP are two types of problem domains in computer science: the question of whether they are equal (i.e. "does P=NP?") gets a lot of play in popular tech media. I just meant that too much Paternity is an NP problem (i.e. a problem not solvable in a reasonable amount of time by modern technology). The second stanza is about cloning Sinatra: Maury wonders why so many kids are being born, and his assistant says that it's because they cloned Ol' Blue Eyes (known for his romantic effects).

Yeah, I should have thought that one through a bit more...thanks again to both of you for taking the time to read and comment.