Nobody's right if everybody's wrong

"Dammit I'm Mad"

Dammit I'm mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I'm in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level "Mad Dog".
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider… eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one… my names are in it.
Murder? I'm a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I'm it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I'd assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
"Sir, I deliver. I'm a dog"
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I'm mad.

--Demetri Martin

this poem is a 224 word palindrome, which means that it reads the same way back to front. I applaud the amazing comedian who wrote this. Think of how long it must have taken to make something like this, checking every few words or so to see if it reads back to front, or however you do that sort of thing.
I love palindromes. My favorite, and one of the better known, is "I'm a lasagna hog", which reads, backwards, "go hang a salami". I wonder who spends their life figuring these things out? There must be some kinda trick, like the Rubik's cube....
Also, just wanted to add that a really good palindrome music video is "bob" by weird al yankovic, which he wrote as a spoof on bob dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and has palindromes as the only lyrics. Look it up on youtube. Ok, toodaloo!

title Quote:Buffalo Springfield, For What it's worth
poem taken from:http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/02/demetri-martins-palindrome-poem.html