Pratie Place has a wonderfully informative post on cellphone poetry writing in Japan (via the WSJ):
"Tanka, literally "short song," is thought to have first emerged around the eighth century. It is composed of 31 syllables arranged in a rigid, five-line pattern of 5-7-5-7-7. It's big on archaic words and has long been associated with high culture...It's short enough to fit on little mobile screens, and simple enough to let young poets whip out bits of verse whenever the spirit moves them."
Hmmm...Nashville. Music. Cellphones. Songwriters.
I am wondering if any of the bazillion aspiring songwriters here in Music City have taken to their cellphones rather than their bar-b-que sauced paper napkins to pen a lyric? OK, Belmont, here's your chance to shine...what better combination of circumstances for a country song than losing a lover from a tractor wreck that involved writing lyrics on a cell phone..can't you hear it?: "John, Dear.. I'm Cingular again".
(I swear, it's the coffee! *grin*)