Today, hats are on my mind.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
My Surrealist Poem Inspired By Tristan Tzara
Show Captives Put On A or La Condition Humaine
by Myself, the Plain Dealer and Fate
It claim really,
To Be,
Were multibillion-dollar,
Did we businesses.
Centers, educational amusement.
OK.
They're Marine want but animals
It's if children whale,
Think,
Ride as to that,
Killer pony?
Exist to wild,
That our big,
Parks,
Or, our a for...
La Condition Humaine by Rene Magritte
by Myself, the Plain Dealer and Fate
It claim really,
To Be,
Were multibillion-dollar,
Did we businesses.
Centers, educational amusement.
OK.
They're Marine want but animals
It's if children whale,
Think,
Ride as to that,
Killer pony?
Exist to wild,
That our big,
Parks,
Or, our a for...
La Condition Humaine by Rene Magritte
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
How to make a Dadaist Poem (method of Tristan Tzara)
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.
Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag.
Shake it gently.
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.
And here you are a writer, infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar.
-Tristan Tzara
It is easier than I thought to be infinitely original and endowed with a charming sensibility. I'll try it! But I will inclusively welcome the vulgar to understand and bask in my infinite charm.
Raoul Hausmann (Austrian, 1886-1971), Mechanical Head [or, The Spirit of Our Time]
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.
Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag.
Shake it gently.
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.
And here you are a writer, infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar.
-Tristan Tzara
It is easier than I thought to be infinitely original and endowed with a charming sensibility. I'll try it! But I will inclusively welcome the vulgar to understand and bask in my infinite charm.
Raoul Hausmann (Austrian, 1886-1971), Mechanical Head [or, The Spirit of Our Time]
Monday, March 8, 2010
Happy The Man
Happy the Man
by Horace
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul or rain or shine
The joys I have possessed, in spite or fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
"Happy the Man" by Horace, from Odes, Book III, xxix. Translation by John Dryden. Public domain. (buy now)
by Horace
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul or rain or shine
The joys I have possessed, in spite or fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
"Happy the Man" by Horace, from Odes, Book III, xxix. Translation by John Dryden. Public domain. (buy now)
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Something Pretty
From the 1991 film, The Fisher King by Terry Gilliam
Grand Central Waltz by George Fenton
Saturday, March 6, 2010
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- Darrelle Anne Centuori
- cleveland, ohio, United States
- "We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror." - Marshall McLuhan