This was an interesting commission that I received: The poetry was to compliment an art show with the theme of "accidental perfection"... So, I used (what I think) is a creative approach to meeting that mandate.
I used a series of random generated events, combined with a series of rigid
and mindful editing processes to create "accidental perfection"
First I took The titles of some of the principal pieces in the show and used
these as topical themes.
Then I took classical quotations on the topic from established sources…I
then created a new poem based on a condensed selection words that were contained
within the body quote.
Next I entered this newly created poem into a random generator which
scrambled the content.
I repeated this process through several cycles until I found an order that
resonated for me
My final edit was to use lyrical license to restore this series of poems to a
“perfect” and poetic state.
The results are below:
Accidentally
It is accidental
Not monumental
It is that art is
…Is that our art monumental?
…Is not accidental that art
Not monuments
…Are intimate
Perfect
Wanted
The way
Some beginning
I perfect
Hard and stories
Changing often
Some don't clear
An ending
Some don’t clear
Learning
That rhyme middle
Clear
Poems
Pine Cone
As of rudimentary fish…
Pine cone
Form the often
Small like leaf bud
Like “a”
Like “A”
A-s of
A-ppendage
A-s of small
Squirrel
I squirrel for meaning
Living like example
I must
…No
Great looking and whole
Living is you
Like
It means something
Collision
Of literature all the arts
Complicated
Theatre all
Visual
And tactile
Fractal
All the arts
Are a collision
Desire
Irresistible irresistibly to
Is
Too irresistible irresistibly
Is desired
Love is to be an
Love is a desire to
An be is Love
Desire desired be irresistibly
Interval
Another in mind or hate
Is freed
It two
It separates perfection
In the another
In which
It comes interval
Freed thought
Satisfied in separate calm
Hound Dog
Keep
Teeth
Among a hound
Bite it!
Bite like it lives you
Sticks you
Discovery
In attaining what we want
And all-which human
Our what-happiness
Illumination
Discovery
Reason
Nature can
Give none our obligations
Nor set the comparable
Process
Successive you arrive with portrait
Start search for/through egg
When start
The same
Again
Starting process:
The one with eliminations
The Volume
Comes through inevitably
Walk
Space you relate another person
Real space
We around and
Relate it almost as another
…Another
Walk around it as
Sculpture
And relate as
Real around it
Living Room
Doing over bad and community
About living bad pride
Can
About living room and
Can
Buildings in spots gathering
Someone is restoring
Someone be the new spots
Western
It's all guys
Where the
Weak
It's guys
…The strong guys
Where like - with weak
It's like with the weak
And the
Western good and bad guys
TV
Of lost rooms
On the
Television brutality
Into the room: America
Brutality into living of Vietnam
Comfort the living Vietnam
Brutality
Of the lost
Television was
America
…Learning
