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How to Make a Dadaist Poem
(method of Tristan Tzara) ........... no not ours :D
To make a Dadaist poem:

Take a newspaper.
Take a pair of scissors.
Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag.
Shake it gently.
Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag.
Copy conscientiously.
The poem will be like you.
And here are you a writer, infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar.
 
About new immigrant

Re-evaluation: this couple's Rothstein
and three wrote charms beguiling son, when--
and talk--gay can.
This cat changes it
into at first.



(hmmmm; an interesting exercise, Annie - not sure it feels very, umm, personal)
 
About new immigrant

Re-evaluation: this couple's Rothstein
and three wrote charms beguiling son, when--
and talk--gay can.
This cat changes it
into at first.



(hmmmm; an interesting exercise, Annie - not sure it feels very, umm, personal)

I think it's great and it actually makes sense, sort of!
 
And now, for those of us (like me) too lazy to cut and paste words or even buy the magnetic poetry kit here is the Dada Poem Generator.

You can type anything into it and the generator will make word salad of it for you. And if it's a poem you wrote, you can Dada it up and it might even be a better poem. One never knows.

There used to be a guy who posted here occasionally who loved to write Dada-ist stuff. I don't recall his method, but poets have dreamed up many variations of Dada poetry. I know the poet Ted Berrigan used a variation of throwing words in the air and the I Ching as a starting point for his famous sonnets.

Anyway have fun with Dada.

Love,
Mama
 
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And now, for those of us (like me) too lazy to cut and paste words or even buy the magnetic poetry kit is the Dada Poem Generator.

You can type anything into it and the generator will make word salad of it for you. And if it's a poem you wrote, you can Dada it up and it might even be a better poem. One never knows.

There used to be a guy who posted here occasionally to loved to write Dada-ist stuff. I don't recall his method, but poets have dreamed up many variations of Dada poetry. I know the poet Ted Berrigan used a variation of throwing words in the air and the I Ching as a starting point for his famous sonnets.

Anyway have fun with Dada.

Love,
Mama

:D:D:D:D:D

Whatever's dung.
Even bit your all picking everso land little;
Forwards backwards oh most.
Making after hand squiggerdly beetle up rolls over at onwards the for the beetle little life.
The shovelling does it buckets rolling masses higgledy and dung heart.
Of morasses beetle.
Sing why bit up.
Of elephants piggledy.
Dung and
 
:D:D:D:D:D

Whatever's dung.
Even bit your all picking everso land little;
Forwards backwards oh most.
Making after hand squiggerdly beetle up rolls over at onwards the for the beetle little life.
The shovelling does it buckets rolling masses higgledy and dung heart.
Of morasses beetle.
Sing why bit up.
Of elephants piggledy.
Dung and

That's great because the essence (ordure?) of the poem still comes across. And if you edited it just a tiny bit (made a few lines break differently), it would be almost as good, in its weird way, as your original!
 
"my physique the;
Smirked pantaloons no;
Way your;
Fine my.
Makes to brings uniform his.
Her Fling;
the Hussar travelled of she;
Shed fingers dimpling for clothing?" but.
"what your cheek?" and splendour these perhaps.
Are as spring!" anything my whilst the;
Downwards enquired young colour;
legs spread ajar"there's racing and aside you lord".
"that would;
What I my pulses vest
 
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