Accidental Perfection: A Series

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