Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Ton_beau_de_Marot

  here’s a toast to Alan Turing
  born in harsher, darker times
  who thought outside the container
  and loved outside the lines
  and so the code-breaker was broken
  and we’re sorry
  yes now the s-word has been spoken
  the official conscience woken
  – very carefully scripted but at least it’s not encrypted –
  and the story does suggest
  a part 2 to the Turing Test:
  1. can machines behave like humans?
  2. can we?”

  ― Matt Harvey

   Don’t Play it Safe

   Don’t stand idle
   at the side of the road
   don’t hold off on happiness
   don’t love with half a heart
   don’t play it safe now
   or ever
   don’t play it safe
   don’t fill up with calm
   don’t take cover from the world
   in a quiet corner
   don’t let your eyelids come down
   like a weighty sentence
   don’t forget you have lips
   don’t sleep but to rest
   don’t ignore the blood in your veins
   don’t think you have no time

   but if
   in any case
   you can’t help it
   and hold off on happiness
   and love with half a heart
   and play it safe now
   and fill up with calm
   and take cover from the world
   in a quiet corner
   and let your eyelids come down
   like a weighty sentence
   and dry up without lips
   and sleep not to rest
   and ignore the blood in your veins
   and think you have no time
   and stand idle
   at the side of the road
   and play it safe
   in that case
   don’t hold on to me.