# Description: # Poems and whimsical retorts # # Commands: # hubot read me a poem - reads a random poem from the hit game Interstate 76 poetry = [ """ Looking out the window of your room onto a wet rainy day Main street under a slate gray afternoon sky The light on your face is soft and dim under the lace curtain And the streets are empty In the distance, there is a flash and a rumble Clouds sail the sky like giant wooden ships On a blackened evergreen sea Capped with foam """, """ I'm a storm torrent across a slate-gray sea I rush in billowed reflections a fast, fast dark sky over an Edinburgh's meadow's wet I bolt white high through snowfall cold I am lightning in the night I sprint like fire across a match head And leap across lakes of dream-stuff Over ancient walls Past armies fast as fast is Faster than quicksilver can fall into the sun I, bounding, prance unstoppable to you My all My everything dream """, """ It's a high pitched sound Hot rubber eternally pressing against a blackened pavement A wheel is forever A car is infinity times four """, """ From where I lie The oceans are deep and dry Empty The sky is black smoke bearing winter's frozen gifts It will snow in this land for a thousand years And I will sleep under it...forever """, """ My dream It takes place in the white room, in back The plaster walls echo sounds The brown wood floor is cold and solid beneath my brown, bare feet This place was a nursery before Now it is empty Save for the hollow sound of my voice """, """ This window above the Charles Wire embedded in cold frames the world Across white space to the frozen shore I see through curls and eddies of falling snow The once green field And a birthday on the grass A party for three in the Boston sun All now covered with snow """, """ Copley brought me to a monument Quiet before the crunch of solitary footfall through ice An obelisk stands in the winter city Its relief tells of a death and justification The precipitation of war And my own memories """, """ I'm silver smooth Bathed ten times a second in an aerosol fire Five thousand degrees in here I course with electricity from my feet to my tongue Where I vomit a torque-delivering spark """, """ It's nicked at the edges And leans backwards, almost reclining Grass grows in tufts near where it enters the earth Its words are worn with time And its stained face is drawn long with wear """, """ It's malleable, my design Things just bolt on here and there Real clean scraped face A new gasket fitted and... Tightened and... I'm done. """, """ She's my girl Pearl white, slick and sexy Never complains, always faithful She cuts the air like a charging buffalo In her arms, it's quiet Her engine whispers to me: "It's gonna be just fine" """, """ They twist like quad-coiled vipers Feeding on combustion's waste Black as ink and hot as Hades they join below Eternally in shadow, unless of course, I roll They belt a rumbling and vibrate fear Into the bones of my foe """, """ It's not a happy place, between the dusk and the dawn Deep below the well-lit and open spaces I wait under the under For them to come and rip me asunder Tearing my core until morning """, """ Glass, flat and forever It stretches out and never stops Unless it finds the hills whose lines rise to mountain peaks Far as far can be """, """ There is a breeze out here That filters through the scrub Over hills and down through long dry riverbeds Across the Texas blacktop It cools the skin and brings the most subtle song in the world To the ears of those who listen """ ] module.exports = (robot) -> robot.respond /(read me)|(how a?bout) a poem/, (msg) -> msg.send msg.random poetry