Dammit I’m Mad – a poem by Demetri Martin
February 15, 2008 at 10:12 pm | In Comedy | 13 CommentsTags: Demetri Martin, Puzzles
“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.N
ame 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.
“If you read the poem carefully, you will really witness the genius (or maybe the madness) of Demetri Martin. The entire poem is a palindrome. Brilliant. I watched a special that he did for the BBC a few years ago, when he was in college he developed a crossword for the student newspaper. Except he wasn’t content with a standard up/down crossword, it was one that went up/down/backwards … a 3D crossword. As I said. Mad.
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Comment by me — February 17, 2008 #
i wonder how much time it took to finish this. pretty impressive.
Comment by July Yang — August 15, 2008 #
Holy [Expletive Deleted]
Comment by Weoffrey Panhead — September 6, 2008 #
woah thats weird
Comment by yo — November 22, 2008 #
can somebody explain to me how is this a palindrome?
Comment by Bacary — November 27, 2008 #
Just to clarify Bacary or anyone else who isn’t in the clear:
A palindrome is a word, sentence, phrase or paragraph that is spelt the same backwards as it is forward.
There is a second type of palindrome in which the words are the same forward and reversed, however in this case it is the order of every letter which is the same whether it is read forwards or backwards.
Also, yes this is very impressive!
Comment by Nick — January 7, 2009 #
I think it is quite clever, but does it make a good poem?
Comment by mixedlollies — January 8, 2009 #
^ who cares? this is rediculous
Comment by jerbear — January 26, 2009 #
I suppose it doesn’t really matter if it is ridiculous, it just shows what comedians do with time on their hands?….
Comment by mixedlollies — February 18, 2009 #
Not a good poem, but the best palindrome i’ve ever heard of. It blows the Sator Square out of the water
Comment by BadFish — February 12, 2009 #
I agree, I don’t think it would have won any major awards … just an interesting execution of a poem
Comment by mixedlollies — February 18, 2009 #
wow..
Comment by dhea — March 22, 2009 #
This was part of his one man show “If I” a very in depth and funny look at the different meanings of “IF” and how they have arisen during the course of his “I”. It is also the tiny palindrome in the (sort of) middle of the big poem.
All 6 parts of this show are on YouTube, and are worth a listen, because “The unexamined life is not worth living, man” lol
Comment by Matt Watt — April 18, 2009 #