Poems are better when you read them vertically

[Vontar]

Cause and Effect
Obesity and Diet Pills
Marching and Clashing Wills
Earthquakes and Concrete
Arctic Cold and Electric Heat
...The Human Race Will Adapt
Making Every Resource Tapped
Everyone Will Surely Wail
Because Human Resilience Will Fail
Right After The Oil's Gone
Oh, People Reading Simply Yawn

I don't claim any rights to owning this poem.

[macbowes]

By vertically I'm assuming you mean bottom to top, as opposed from top to bottom. Both of those could be considered reading it "vertically".

[Vontar]

or you could read it both ways and figure it out :P