A Frenchman has unveiled a 7,600-verse poem said to be the world's longest. Patrick Huet's Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World is written on a roll of fabric almost one kilometre long. AFP reports that the poem is an acrostic, in which the first letters of each verse spell out a message - in this case, the text of the 30 articles of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I wonder if having to read, or listen to, such a long poem would be a violation of my human rights.