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Nonsense POEM #14687 (Free verse) by Bankrupt_Word_Clerk

Whining elephant stands on a blue Line waiting for government cheese and Crackers to float up out of the swirling mist That obscures the vision of the beaver people climbing out of the primordial mud-huts of the Village Disjunct of the County Inarticulate This is the same dream I had when a Hamburger was eating me! Can I call you Malcontent? Yes you can, it's my name and has been such for so long I can't even remember when it wasn't shifting in and out of phase this laughing cactus wants a hug as the penguin waddles in his tuxedo and top hat towards the anchovy laden Sea port and sees shells on the beach avoiding the live crabs catching at my sand groovin' heels it's a scene, man... a real scene.

zodiac 21-Jun-05/2:53 AM
I've never heard that definition of surrealism. It strikes me as kind of a misunderstanding on Thomas' part. Anyway, surely most surrealists would have agreed with his idea - that there is a mediating influence. As in the most famous surrealist exercise, the Exquisite Corpse, you always have at least of bit of line showing to guide you. For another example, Lewis Carroll didn't completely randomize his word coinage in "Jabberwocky", he just made up a consistent language that didn't make any sense. If brillig, slithy troves, wabe, borogroves, mome raths, and so on were real English words, the poem would have made perfect sense. As things stand, it only makes dream-sense.

Bankrupt_Word_Clerk, Carroll IS formal nonsense poetry. So are a bunch of others from his time. It was kind of an industry.




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