(A mental written collage, for Tristan Tzara, whoever he was.)
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Sexual perversions disguised as poems
as you read, a hand slips under your skirt.
8000 attitudes later
and still this boy here!
1500 sexualities in this head alone.
All wearing identical smiles!
Pretending they don't notice each other,
pretending to be shy as they undress
for the 4800th time.
There are many Grey Chair people
who do nothing except let other people sit on them.
The boy who was a thief of consciousness
Stole someone's memories and took over their life,
and regretted it because it reminded him of his own mind.
The Great Dictator
who told all of his friends he hated them
while stripping them naked and flaying them
destroying their personalities, scoping out their souls
As they stopped to sip red wine and eat
delicately cook swordfish.
Several thousand light bulbs later,
And the light is still not any lighter.
Chrysanthemums picked fresh from the earth
deep fried and then dipped in olive oil,
Sprinkled with pepper and salt - Delicious!
A heart rolls out of the left trouser leg
quickly stood upon,
Shell smashed soul yoked all over the floor.
Take off your first clothes, then your second,
then your third, then your forth, then the bones you bare,
then the heart, then the second and third heart, all off:
Welcome to the House of Subgenius!
A Surrealist must avoid weightlessness:
words are arm bands, rubber rings, life guards.
Did you hear about the boy
who got nutrition from language
only if it was sung to him?
He died young of anorexia.
My Philosophy so far: the principle of deliberate irrationality, anarchy, stupidity uncertainty and cynicism and the rejection of the laws of beauty and social organisation. DADA IS GOD! DADA IS EASY! DADA IS ALGEBRA! DADA HAS TEN BILLION TANGIBLE SOULS! DADA SLEEPS FOR ETERNITY WITH EYES OPEN! DADA EXPLODES! DADA IS ONLY FIVE YEARS OLD! DADA IS HISTORY! DADA IS UNCONTROLABLE! DADA IS POURING ALL OVER YOU NOW - IT’S MYSTERIOUS CONTROL! DADA IS THE END OF NONSENSE AND THE BEGINNING OF NONSENSE! DADA IS NO POET OR POEM! DADA IS WIEGHTLESS ARTLESS DIATRIBE! DADA IS CATHARTIC VOMIT! DADA IS A PLAYGROUND! DADA MAKES SERIOUS CLOWN OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE AND DEAD TIME!
7 comments:
Interesting but I'm not sure how qualified I am to comment on it. I like the 'Grey Chair people'. Fourth has a 'u' in it.
I have a post coming up about Surrealist writers and I mention Tzara but I'd never heard of him before I started doing my research and I remember precious little now.
I can see where you're coming from but I'm not sure where you've ended up. Not very helpful I know.
Unqualified? Odd. Do you really need to be thoroughly qualified to read absurd poetics?
I think this is read by many people as a hideous piece of contortion, juxtaposing, images that are incongruous, ridiculous, jarringly abusrd, idiotic and completely nonsensical. Perhaps it just reads pretentious, but that was not my intention. I genuinely love the spontaneous playfulness of dadaist gibberish and observation.
I think I've ended where I began, in absurdity.
Perhaps not academically qualified but I really don't have the right mindset for this kind of poetry - it annoys me first and foremost and I can never seem to get over that.
The collage works well. I have studied it for a bit and can still find more in it. I am not a great collage person, but I could wish that I had created this one.
Like Jim, I am, not sure about the poem, it doesn't resonate with me the way the collage does.
Intrigued to know what annoys you about it Jim, do tell? I imagine you find it too 'gimmicky'? Let me know.
Thanks david. You prefer the visual collage rather than the word collage. I suppose they both offer alternatives. I was trying to create a word collage. when you re and reread it new images and comparisons arise. At least, that was my intention, perhaps it hasn't worked.
No, I feel I need to know the rules of how to read this poem before I start. Is it important that I know who Tristan Tzara is for example? Is the graphic relevant? Do the two smileys suggest a theatrical connection? I could go on. Basically I have more questions about this poem that I have answers.
There are good ideas in the piece, e.g.
There are many Grey Chair people
who do nothing except let other people sit
on them!
The boy who was a thief of consciousness
Stole someone's memories and took over
their life,
and regretted it because it reminded him of
his own
mind.
Both these stanzas could stand as poems on their own right or be the basis of other poems.
I accept that this poem is a collage but I can't see the picture I'm afraid.
I wrote this long while ago, it is pretty weak but in answer to your questions; no you don't need to know who Tzara is, but it won't harm to interested reader to go and find out. And the smilies signify nothing more than what they signify - a happy face and a sad face. Obtuse, I know. Whilet the collage was made by a dada practictioner during WW1, it is constructed from written/pictorial
/magazine sources.
I'm paying homage to the dada type spirit. Interpreting it in my humble like but perhaps it reads rather baffling and incomprehensible. a misadventure, i enjoyed./
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