Take that, haiku writers!

Okay, I've never heard of this dude, but guy on Comedy Central has thrown down the poetic gauntlet to the masses with a 224-word palindrome poem.
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/02/demetri-martins-palindrome-poem.html

Somebody's got way too much time on his hands. WAY too much time. And far too much weed.

 

Khartoum weeps.

 

Worst. Haiku. Ever.

 

There once was a man named Martin
Whose poetry smelled just like fartin'
But he's on TV
and I'm not, you see
And that leaves my sphincter a-smartin'

 

Write cool poems, yes.
But can he cook halibut?
[/An SJ crossthread]

 

Now that's impressive

 

Here we go again
Nothing like a bad haiku
To increase the snark

 

Dude is long-winded
Much too long for me to read
His poem's dumb, too.

 

Demetri Martin
commercialized irony
humorless by choice?

 

I'm trying to figure out how that's a palindrome on any level.

 

122 words in, the whole thing repeats in reverse order, letter-by-letter, IJAG. Agreed, most of it makes no sense whatsoever. Still, I'm impressed.

 

The literal definition level? Unless I'm really missing something.