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]
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