Every day, prediction markets publish thousands of sentences about the future. Will Bitcoin reach one hundred fifty thousand dollars by December thirty-first? Will Trump say "Tariff" this week? Will Jesus Christ return before 2092?
Will / Did draws a daily poem from those sentences. The odds, charts and trading buttons fall away. A celebrity wedding and a nuclear detonation sit in identical type, priced in identical units.
Now is today's poem, assembled hour by hour. At midnight, New York time, it is sealed and joins the archive. Each line links to its market.
How this is made
The sentences come from Polymarket's public API. Sports are excluded to make room for the less predictable juxtapositions outside the fixture list. Questions with no trading volume are excluded because this is a record of futures people have put money on. Questions the rules cannot turn into a Will…? sentence are also left out.
Price ladders, weather forecasts and other repeated questions are grouped into families. Numbers, comparisons and many names are ignored when comparing their wording, so questions about different cities or people can belong to the same family. One market represents each family, chosen by a fixed calculation from its identifier. Its answer speaks only for that market. Beneath each line's time is what its family traded together, the cumulative trading volume of every market the line stands for. (Hover over the figure to see how many markets that is.)
The language is transformed by written rules: numbers are spelled out, some fragments become questions, and settled questions change tense. No language model rewrites the lines. These transformations can leave intentional awkwardness, since corrections to the rules are editorial decisions too.
The times beside the lines are the source's creation or closure times, when available, on a twenty-four-hour clock in New York time. A date in place of a time means an earlier event was captured on this day. The update time records the last data capture.
A newly settled line briefly shows the question struck through above its answer.
The dollar amount is the sum of recorded cumulative trading volume across all its underlying eligible markets, including those removed by family selection. Each market is counted once within a day, at its latest recorded volume. It measures trading across those markets' lifetimes, not money newly wagered that day or the amount still at stake.
See the source code.