By Patrick Doyle

Liberal Arts – English Major

Poems about internet videos should exist more. ‘Fail videos’ are little bits of time captured that make us either go “eek!” “ahhh!!!” or “haha.” There is something about them that gives me a great deal of joy. The ones of exceptional pain, not so much, but nonetheless they are captured. We all have phones and cameras all the time so ‘weird things’ that happen become the open playing field of us all. I watched probably three hours worth of ‘Fail videos,’ all the while feeling that this truly is ‘living.’ The pieces enclosed are to commemorate the ‘Fail video.’

The Spectator Becomes the Sport

The best Fail videos are when
the projectile, accident or misgiving
comes flying at the camera, which
then spirals deeply out of control
into pixelated Hell, being dropped
and then comes the black.

The Worst Date

I have literally had a girl over
at my house and tried to put on
Fail videos for comic relief. They
hardly laughed and it didn’t help
me very much with them. It did
help me feel better about
not being helped very much because
I laughed.

Cars

All the vids featuring automobile
cars are way more traumatic for me
because I have done things like
backed up into a telephone pole really fast
or hit another head on going 75mph.