What is the Shortest Poem?
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. I am in Green Bank, West Virginia. Pocahontas County. And my favorite word is ... I learned it from Big Bird and it's not so much a word as the alphabet, if you try to pronounce it like a word. It's a neat trick, almost poetic. But what counts as poetry? How short can something be and still be a poem? What is the shortest poem in the world and why does knowing it matter? Okay, now I am in Charlottesville, Virginia in a hotel room. I'm on the road this week. Take a look at my amazingly fancy set up. A popular contender for the shortest story in the world is apocryphally attributed to Ernest Hemingway. It contains only six words. "For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn." A popular contender for the title of worl...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. I am in Green Bank, West Virginia. Pocahontas County. And my favorite word is ... I learned it from Big Bird and it's not so much a word as the alphabet, if you try to pronounce it like a word. It's a neat trick, almost poetic. But what counts as poetry? How short can something be and still be a poem? What is the shortest poem in the world and why does knowing it matter? Okay, now I am in Charlottesville, Virginia in a hotel room. I'm on the road this week. Take a look at my amazingly fancy set up. A popular contender for the shortest story in the world is apocryphally attributed to Ernest Hemingway. It contains only six words. "For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn." A popular contender for the title of worl...
