The screaming.computer has its first module: The Magic 8-Ball. Not exactly a poetry-generator, but it's got to start somewhere!

Receipt paper printed with debug messages and Magic 8-Ball answers

Receipt showing a Magic 8-Ball and the answer 'Ask again later.'

Infrastructure is in place to randomly load and execute any available module (although just this one exists at the moment), optionally with weighted probability of selection, to account for some modules having more or less variety of output.

The Magic 8-Ball seemed like a straightforward proof-of-concept. Perhaps next I'll do a fortune cookie.... Development on the complex stuff like poetry-generation continues in the background, but it's nice to be able to quickly integrate these simpler ideas as they pop into my head.