A Text Message from my Mother

8 Dec 2023

This poem did really well on Reddit, getting over 11 thousand upvotes (although it disappeared into obscurity on all the other networks!).

But with popularity attracts muppets who wanted to debate whether it was truly "Found Poetry" as it clearly wasn't a verbatim copy of a real message.

I didn't engage — the other comments and the upvotes indicated I'd made lots of people laugh, so the detractors can crawl back under their bridgess and debate the whether "Found Poetry" needs to be a verbatim copy of real text.

Also performed it at a poetry open mic night and it went down well — enjoy!