What is the Shortest Poem?

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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Big Bird song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr5er4ueWBQ

John Denver's "Ballad of Richard Nixon": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC9U_PvC8Fs

SHORTEST CONCERT by White Stripes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vYlHTGsmso

Shortest video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uDgJ9_H0gg

other REALLY short videos on YouTube (involves cats): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPEE9ZwTmy0&list=PL1EBE78CC528B52E8

Muhammad Ali "me / we" discussion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXQ_IjzWN7A

cool visual uses of words: http://www.marcofolio.net/other/15_cool_word_illusions.html

"For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_worn

shortest poem website: http://www.worldsshortestpoem.com

Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lines_on_the_Antiquity_of_Microbes

Paul Hartal rhyming couplets: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-seven-shortest-poems-in-the-world/

"me / we" discussion: http://www.englishforums.com/English/WorldsShortestPoem/vrrkk/post.htm

Definition of poetry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poem

Aram Saroyan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aram_Saroyan

Aram Saroyan (examples of his work): http://eclipsearchive.org/projects/ARAM/aram.html

lighght: http://www.artspace.com/aram_saroyan/lighght#newZoom

lighght tattoo: http://lovelyarc.tumblr.com/post/44072792488/cybele-knowles-has-held-the-reins-over-at-the

one-LETTER poems: http://thewholegardenwillbow.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/one-letter-poems-for-aaron-belz-after-aaron-belz/

"l/y": http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2007/06/measuring-worlds-shortest-poem.html

jwcurry "i" poem: http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/grumman/egrumn.htm

discussion of world's shortest poem: http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheWorldsShortestPoem/bnppz/post.htm

RW Watkins "Le Vide (For Yves Klein)": http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2005/06/xyz-of-literature.html

silent musical compositions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_silent_musical_compositions

artistic briefness records article: http://diffuser.fm/jack-white-guinness-world-records/

The Book of Disquiet: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Disquiet-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/0141183047






"everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text"
- Pessoa

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