Poetry for Better Code

(Note on format: originally was going to do full movie using screenshots until halfway through when I realized how tedious it was. Product: about 13 seconds of Coltrane and a reference to Kanye vs. Khalifa - at least one of those two will be relevant in the future so I don't feel too bad about it.)

~
Poetry, by itself, will not help you to write high quality code.

<it takes devotion! discipline!> </>

You can look at the work of Sylvia Plath or Lucille Clifton or James Wright but their work is not the same as creating php that runs donations to the local domestic violence shelter or presidential candidate or shady Etsy apothecary.

body   (
color: "something emotional";
)
<p style: red>

The same things are there! They exist! Line breaks! <b> </b>
The feeling in the grocery store of wanting to have everything and nothing at once: you'll have to explain what you mean when you say <a href:_> and talk in foreign tongues.
The feeling when you're asked on your second eHarmony date if this career is just ephemeral or nah?
Changes: in tone, in maturity, in deftness.

<style style="text/css">
.marquee {
 height: 50px;  overflow: hidden;
 position: relative;
 background: yellow;
 color: orange;
 border: 1px solid orange;
}
.marquee p {
 position: absolute;
 width: 100%;
 height: 100%;
 margin: 0;
 line-height: 50px;
 text-align: center;
 /* Starting position */
 -moz-transform:translateX(100%);
 -webkit-transform:translateX(100%);  transform:translateX(100%);
 /* Apply animation to this element */  -moz-animation: scroll-left 5s linear infinite;
 -webkit-animation: scroll-left 5s linear infinite;
 animation: scroll-left 5s linear infinite;
}
/* Move it (define the animation) */
@-moz-keyframes scroll-left {
 0%   { -moz-transform: translateX(100%); }
 100% { -moz-transform: translateX(-100%); }
}
@-webkit-keyframes scroll-left {
 0%   { -webkit-transform: translateX(100%); }
 100% { -webkit-transform: translateX(-100%); }
}
@keyframes scroll-left {
 0%   {
 -moz-transform: translateX(100%); /* Browser bug fix */
 -webkit-transform: translateX(100%); /* Browser bug fix */
 transform: translateX(100%);  }

[secret code: everything will be beautiful, nothing will hurt.] 

 100% {
 -moz-transform: translateX(-100%); /* Browser bug fix */
 -webkit-transform: translateX(-100%); /* Browser bug fix */
 transform: translateX(-100%);
 }
}
</style>
<div class="marquee">
<p>postmodernism... </p>
</div>

Things do and don't fit into boxes, given.
Poems unlock and also lock (most make a metal-on-metal sound click;
warning, I suppose, not to beat them with hoses).
Just do what feels right.

-Jessica