Tuesday, September 21, 2004

National Anti-flarf Day

Having already hit the Village, flarf gets a little National notice.

Google flarf gas and Julia's Poems tops the list.

Google flarf torture and hit on a J.R.R. Tolkien Honor Seminar.

Flarf has reached the point of "shizzle" and should just be dropizzled like some gross thing you didn't know you were holdin. One thing that's puzzling though is that the flarfists flarf poems though very bad are not as bad as they would seem to be intended to be. A really really bad poem in addition to lacking form content vision integrity the sting of a thousand bees etc would need to contain no energy, have nothing be transfered at any point in the poem. To be really bad, would have to be really boring, like

flarf vision

because Silliman told me to
founder of the Flarf movement
he has been joined by hundreds of
poems

I quickly pieced together
the past, the future, the present
to see them stacked into a neighborhood
with a vision of arrows and ...

today at the request of Ron
Prevallet's "pluralistic vision,"
now provisionally gestured toward as
ferocious-little-kitten arts

derives compassion from its ironic
"movement" known as paydays
ferrall-vision holding everything
the New York Times Tunnel Vision

Even the nouns "Rose" to
A lively network of residents
Orbital ... first flarf
who ever wondered more natural

understand the feelings
for a space-based kinetic
embrace
legend won't explain

a lot of military equipment
lurking in my peripheral vision
Holman's pluralistic vision proves
behind the gesture
conception terminates in the vision of the closed

sense, at least in any language
alt.ferrall-vision ?? alt.fetish ??
milk rulez vision
creating dividend others health wall

[x]wee [x]flarf [x]mollie
It is moonbase ointment
through the field of my vision
called 1>2>3>4.

Arcanologist Wheel Of Fish
my head felt to the equivalent of
Touched
Supplemental Result

Though the tunnel of vision I look through is dusty and frequently
Sort of like "averted vision"
framed
discussion of the vision - x

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The BBC World Service had a piece on flarf in the summer of 2003 -- with an interview of K. Silem Mohammad to boot.

Scott Keeney said...

Missed that one. Thanks for the info, Ron.