What ends up cheek by jowl is fascinating. Like books in a rummage sale, some book on the Grand Ole Opry ends up between a dummy’s guide to rock climbing and music sheets for Mary Poppins. The remix ends up with enjambments of content you wouldn’t expect.
With this idea in mind, some of the poems in been shed bore tumbled the order of a small set of words in several ways to see what tones and combos came up.
As an extension of the idea, a generator game is now on one of my sites: The Poem Shuffler. It randomizes the word order of any text entered.
It is kind of like an anagrammer on a word-scale. You can pick the line length and see how it tumbles.
The program doesn’t keep anything entered and if you push shuffle, it’s gone, so copy as you go.
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thanks to Brian for this. I already have a small collection of “Tap & Pop” poems – shuffle and erase. My training on the Ipod game with random balloon erase and shuffle has come in handy!
Honest, I think some of the shuffle poems I’ve done in the last 24 hours are better than anything I generate on my own because my solidified thought patterns are broken up. It’s liberating, and it appears you don’t need them to communicate, though some advance credibility in other ways helps, I bet.