It just happened that in one of the trivia questions asked during the Binus English Week competition is about Palindrome. To Indonesian students, this might not be that a familiar word. What does this mean? Let’s take a look at it.
Definition of Palindrome found on Wiki page says “a palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of units that may be read the same way in either direction, with general allowances for adjustments to punctuation and word dividers” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindrome).
Now, my most astonishment goes to the talented comedian Demetri Martin. I found that he wrote a palindromic poem “Dammit I’m Mad”. Read carefully of his poem and see if you can identify the entire palindrome in it… ENJOY… !!!
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Dammit I’m mad
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled?
I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas it is so late. Who stops to help? Man, it is hot.
I’m in it.
I tell.
I am not a devil.
I level “Mad Dog”.
Ah, say burning is as a deified gulp
in my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open.
On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope.
Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider … eh?
We sleep.
Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one … my names are in it. Murder?
I’m a fool. A hymn I plug,
Deified as a sign in ruby ash – a Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I’m it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots.
Oh, wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I’d assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
“Sir, I deliver. I’m a dog.”
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I’m mad.
(taken from:
http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/Panorama/Literature/Martin/MartinPalindrome.html)
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