The fact that the bitcoin address is a vanity one tells us the bits are random, so I guess reading them in a certain order is not possible. So that route is dead.
But CoinArtist also pointed to the poem a few times on twitter. But I couldn't get anything out of it, so I stopped looking at the text.
No, you are mistaken, at least partly. You would have known that if you took the pain to read through the whole thread. As far as I know no commercial or publicly available software allows for creating vanity addresses with vanity private keys, but crax0r showed us (with examples) that you can implement it yourself and fix
parts of
both the public address and private key and successfuly generate matching pairs of private key and address.
for one thing it seems unlikely they would have mined minikeys for a vanity address...is there even vanity software that comes stock with that functionality?
Well, just because there is no off-the-shelf software to do something, doesn't mean its not doable:
SUPER1FLAMEN6QPEGRLTFZXDEAFFAL -> 1FLANSqJppAGxWdCrUW2VsrncH1NfWtNXo
SUPER1FLAMEN6JQWSXAAHLJQJDEZXR -> 1FLArjwv7oPTZGUuGxLhEtPh7pkfoSbRTX
SUPER1FLAMEN6RHJSDXWSCEFMSBMWX -> 1FLA4LzZtRuaV914mEJHaWmBGdaMt2AmRG
These are all valid mini-private keys that I vanitized in 2 minutes, on GPU it would be much faster...