Uneasy Rhetoric

I was going back through my archives just now and came across a sonnet I wrote in response to a Valentine’s Day contest Rebecca MacKinnon was running. Unlike most of the sonnets I’ve written over the years, I still like this one. In fact, it grows on me by the day.

So, Narcissius like, I’m about to make a claim that is sure to be thwarted by someone, somewhere, in summertime:

My sonnet represents the first occurrance of Google - meaning the trademark name of the Internet search engine - in a sonnet written in the Shakespearean style, and possibly in any formal sonnet style, period.

Prove me wrong. Remember, a sonnet is a formal style. Just because you call a poem a sonnet, that does not make it so.

Furthermore, if you know of other poems where Google occurs, I would love to know about them, especially if they’ve been published in an established tree killer.