Cut-Up Method

As you can see from my post last week, I'm playing with Generative literature. William S. Borough's Cut-Up Method renders some pretty interesting results. Unlike the "rules" I had set up for the True Detective quote, this is a pretty pure exercise.

I was simply given a handful of words and I created poems with that (free to punctuate how I see fit, thankfully).

The words and phrases I was given:

their dad, when I first picked, to school anyway, to great things, with crushed mulberries, one evening, the goose-feathered pillows, because that's how, unconscious and unresponsive, so strong it rips, against ocean view, and the prominence

Here are some of the poems I came up with (voiding a phrase here and there):

No. 1:

Their dad, unconscious and unresponsive, one evening.

When I first picked the goose-feathered pillows and the prominent

Because that's how, against ocean-view,

with crushed mulberries.

To great things, to school anyway so strong it rips

No. 2:

One evening, with crushed mulberries 

and the prominent to great things,

The goose-feathered pillows against ocean-view

So strong it rips.

Because that's how when I first picked.

Unconscious and unresponsive.

No. 3:

When I first picked their dad one evening,

the goose feathered pillows and the prominent.

To great things, so strong it rips.

Against ocean-view, unconscious and unresponsive, to school anyway.

Because that's how with crushed mulberries.