Love is a dark truck ...

Love is a dark truck.
Why does the hood work?

– Iself

Created with the help of the Poem Generator. I clicked on the Make Poem button about 6 times before anything vaguely useful popped out of the machine.

Yes, that is a serious question – why does the hood work? Or does it?

Eindeutige Indizien

Der Drache, der an seinem hellgelben Bauch als Feigling erkannt worden war, setzte sich, auf dem Rücken liegend, mit Fauchen, Feuerspeien und sämtlichen Krallen schwanzschlagend zur Wehr.

– Iself

Hugo Ball: Mein Dämon

Mein Dämon

Mein Dämon hat keine Brüder und Schwestern.
Mein Dämon ist nicht von heute und gestern.
Als Gott, der Herr, die Welten machte,
Saß mein Dämon dabei im Grase und lachte,
Schnitt sich die Zehennägel entzwei
Und sah an der ganzen Welt vorbei.

Hugo Ball (1886-1927)

Irgendwie ließ mich dieses kleine Gedicht des Dadaisten Hugo Ball an die Hindu-Mythologie denken, in der auch Dämonen vorkommen, die es an Macht durchaus mit den Göttern aufnehmen können... 

Englische Übertragung / In English

Lyrik – Gedichte verschiedener Autoren

Let the Exquisite Cadavulator do the poetry

There is a site that does dada poetry for you. You can either feed it an URL or type your own text in a box. Here's my box text (inspired by a movie with Louis de Funès, part of which I recently watched):

the young clown looked out of his caravan and noticed that the elephant who was manned by two people was gone the day began with sorrow even though out there was a humorous blue sky

Run through the cadavulator, this produced the following result:

who caravan young out and a that sky of was there blue with his clown by gone was was people two manned the the elephant though began day looked noticed even sorrow the humorous out

Something half-way grammatical and semantically discernible was turned into something ungrammatical and, well, definititely dada or blabla or something.

Now another trial. A terse collection of words in ungrammatical order based on observations of my immediate environment:

everything green white trip yellow book specialty you Theo's tell religions DataPerfect I

And cadavulator's output:

everything green Theo's tell religions trip DataPerfect white book I yellow specialty you

That didn't do anything for me, to tell you the truth. Give the machine one last chance:

love you I

Cadavulator's response:

you I love

Hey, not bad!

Go try cadavulator yourself.