Saturday, April 19, 2008

Mechanical Verse by Alex

So, Alex figured out an interesting compositional method a while back. He made me promise not to reveal it, but suffice it to say that it isn't completely random. But I think that as stream of consciousness writing it's pretty loose while still maintaining a few connective threads. Here's a recent sample. (I especially like the last few lines, beginning with "once upon..."). André Breton, consider yourself warned.

Defeat consume grouse become less evenly make exchange messages hunt snipe make one’s dwelling business rock-hard-and-abstain from good for you me ingest by Cannibals saliva atom-drop bombs machine-under stand able-dead luggage compartment puzzle out of expressive make a byway of reek of gasconade juice exude gum tree plan under-the-board microphone slum surface sphere of exert influence once upon a fourth dimensioned State Department of the Uniform Commercial Code. Oxygen clock fourth material ownership. State of nature.

Soundless devastation
Warfare
End

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