NEW PROJECT: TEXT ANIMATION

Our next project involves animating text from a poem, lyrics, or other written work while incorporating buttons for viewer interaction. I found the poem that I am using in an issue of Annalemma, a relatively new lit/art mag. The poem has no discernable title, author, or even beginning or end but the lines I am using are as follows:

The youth of today speak tersely and without merit, only to be heard. The youth of today grossly under-appreciate themselves. Yhe youth of today, like the youth of yesterday and the day before that, are grossly under-appreciated. If you wanted to dance with the youth of today, they might allow this. But do not dance the waltz with the youth of today. Do not dance a ballet or a polka or an Argentine tango. The youth of today do not know these dances, nor do they wish to know them. No, if you wish to dance with the youth of today you must dance like your shoes are made of red-hot tin. Dance like  your arms are made of thin strips of tissue blowing in a hurricane.

I think this text will lend itself well to animation and I hope to have a better handle on this project than the last, which, btw, is killing me.