To Make a Dadaist Poem
- Take a newspaper.
- Take a pair of scissors.
- Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem.
- Cut out the article.
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Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in
a bag.
- Shake it gently.
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Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they
left the bag.
- Copy conscientiously.
- The poem will be like you.
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And here are you a writer, infinitely original and endowed with a
sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the
vulgar.
Tristan Tzara