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[postmoderndiotima]

I don't know how many people on here have ever heard of flarf poetry, but besides it being fun to say, I find it really helps with triggering ideas.

Here's the Wikipedia page:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flarf_poetry

But, basically it is thinking of a strange phrase (consisted of unrelated words for best results), and Googling it. Then you go through, website by website, and lift up what stands out to you for use in your eventual poem.

After that, organize your finds for artistic quality, and voila! You got yourself a flarf poem, or perhaps the quirky, strange gateway to a larger work.

So, out of curiosity, try it, post it here, I want to see what madness arises.

Here's an example from my Spring 2010 semester blog (http://wp.stockton.edu/advpof10/march-madness/dez-wallen/), and I used the Google search term "soggy hipster witches".

"Your dreams are my nightmares

A light in the box and standing in stocking feet, to
fulfill many Northwestern Pacific cliches with a kickstand
cyclery. Tolerance, you can find it anywhere, but hipsters
didn’t revive fixed gears at all. Your store isn’t owed my
business just because it’s local. Don’t panic. Should you
chill and smoke some fat blunts, riding chillwaves to
fuzzbuzz heaven together? The wood chipper has been
replaced by a cyclops and Obi-Wan Kinobi is probably
my only hope. We focus on twists because twists help
digestion, and I am so lucky no one cool is here to
see me in this helmet. It hits me: all I want in life is a
chandelier to hang in my bathroom so I feel fancy
while I snort crushed birth control pills off the back of
my toilet–oh and tattoo-patterned paper towels."

Have fun!