Here’s a poem for Pac-Man lovers: “Notes Taken in Research for a Poem About Ms. Pac-Man” by Elliot Harmon. An excerpt:
I do not know which to prefer,
the beauty of pursuit
or the beauty of denouement,
the last dot in Ms. Pac-Man
or just after.
Apparently, there are Pac-Man haters in the world, as Elliot notes in his little note about his “Notes”: “Workshopping the poem taught me that there are poets who hate video games. I mean, they actually hate hate them; as in, want to eradicate them. I hope that both poetry and video games last as long as possible in the culture war, but I’ll gladly side with the winner when the time comes.”
If you had to pick between Pac-Man and Tetris, which would you pick?
Screenshot from freepacman.org
