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A moment of peace,

That’s all that I’m asking for,

Please go to bed now.

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    1 year ago

    I wrote a haiku
    In the dada style, but it’s
    A little creepy

    This is a true story. I compose dadaist poetry (I use a method similar to Burroughs’ cut-up method, so phrases rather than single words, usually) and sometimes I do haikus. I composed a random haiku for this prompt but it came out much darker than I anticipated, so I wrote the above one the old fashioned way, and I’ll share that instead.

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        1 year ago

        Dadaist poetry is random. In its purest form one would choose a source (like an article or book) and cut out all the individual words, drawing them randomly to write. I use a cut-up method similar to the one used by Burroughs to write The Soft Machine, which uses entire phrases and not individual words.

        To make a haiku, additional editing is often needed (omitting words from the chosen phrase, usually).

        Here are a couple of dadaist haikus I’ve composed. I’ve decided not to keep the one I referenced because it was just too dark.

        bumf*ck

        washed tobacco road signs of potential quarry and more on the way

        youth

        last night the snow fell something of no consequence has happened to me