Sunday, February 3, 2008

Emmet Williams did this thing called "The Ultimate Poem." The rules of the game are as follows. 1) Choose 26 words by chance operations-or however you please. 2)Substitute these 26 words for the 26 letters of the alphabet, to form an alphabet of words ie a=dog, b=table etc. 3) Choose a word or phrase (a word or phrase not included in the alphabet of words) to serve as the title of the poem. 4) For the letters in the title word or phrase, substitute the corresponding words from the alphabet of words. This operation generates the poem. 5) Repeat the process described in step 4 with the results of step 4. 6) Repeat the process with the results of 5. 7) Keep going.

This is what I came up with.

"dorm room blues"

vienna escape check promise
check
escape escape
promise
blues guns fray
gone

apple magnets fray woman
woman fuss
fray
gone
switch fuss
rider fuss
switch humble
fray switch duchess
shotgun check escape
promise magnets gone
fuss

fuss
shotgun shotgun
guns
fray
promise fuss tidings woman fray groove gone
wait check
fuss killer
suddenly escape promise
fuss woman

wait waterfall
guns
guns

suddenly fuss magnets groove
suddenly fuss groove fray check
wait fuss
guns guns

gone waterfall vienna vienna fray
woman guns killer
wait waterfall gone gone
promise fuss tidings
woman fray groove
gone
tidings check escape escape
apple
fray

tidings escape woman fray
suddenly fuss groove fray check
wait fuss
guns guns
apple magnets fray woman woman
fuss

1 comment:

Charish Halliburton said...

I'm going to try this today, i like yours