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The Magic of a Word

by Jim Benz

to His existence
monetary a gulp I continuous
of find
a
word origin Russian Dada

the human expect
man a goes into corpse-flowers
of freedom
academies
with of riding door

to here energy
maledictions as good investment capital
of frightens
and
which other radiations duration

04/22/2010

Author's Note: aleatoric poem derived from Tristan Tzara's 1918 manifesto.

Posted on 04/23/2010
Copyright © 2026 Jim Benz

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 04/23/10 at 12:25 PM

Now that's a great opening. The rest is pretty damn good, too.

Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 04/24/10 at 02:38 PM

I liked reading this with full stop after each word. surreal in a scrabble kind of way.

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