Writing {{‘poems that change’, ‘chance poems’, ‘dynamic poetry’}}!
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Claims a tiny language called Blur Markup Language (BML) lets writers encode weighted choices, inline JS eval, and seeded randomness so text is lazily evaluated rather than fixed. Implementation is “bad JavaScript” plus eval but it runs in browsers, prints reproducibly with a seed, and scales to huge permutation counts. Built a gallery contraption called the poetron that prints receipt poems and reports that visitors enjoyed it, and a physical/online book will expose the many generated variants.
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