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.
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
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.
I’m not familiar with dadaist writing. I can’t speak for others but I’d like to hear your haiku.
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