Sinister Kitchen's Quasi-Randomly Generated Surrealist Poems Of The Day (TM)


July 7th

Inheritance is multifactorial with an abrupt threshold.
What is at issue is not the size of the audience
(this fact was well known in Drosophila):
"love" crops up quite a lot as something to sing about.

Some amino acids show no change whatsoever:
so why does their music sound so good?
Once the double mutant genotype has formed
"O Superman" is a very simple production.

With incomplete clinical knowledge about blood-group antigens,
the singer is oppressed by everything that is empowered:
the relation between fertility or mortality and inbreeding
is the domain of twentieth-century art practice.

Algorithm: 1) Randomly open text "A" 2) randomly take passage to generate first line 3) randomly open text "B" 4) randomly take passage to generate next line 5) repeat 1-4 until it "feels like a poem"
Source Text A: "The Genetics of Human Populations", by L.L. Cavilli-Sforza and W.F. Bodmer
Source Text B: "Ranters and Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-92", by Greil Marcus


July 5

Decisions and choices in the modern world:
a disagreeable chore.
The future of life on Earth remained a mystery,
people who start out with empty pockets will reject the gamble.

When we play tennis,
finding tea or milk,
exposures are intolerable!
(for the same age levels)

"Once you become sensitized to it,
with windmills and steam engines,
the willingness to take risk is essential
in every aspecct of life."

The members of the Fed clearly prefer
to repay the loan in Confederate dollars.
You might even wish IBM had disappeared
(Unlike Cardono, they worked inductively)

Algorithm: 1) Randomly open text 2) randomly take a passage to create first line; 3) repeat 1 & 2 for each new line. Source Text: "Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk", by Peter L. Bernstein


June 27

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to distinctly for can been not he?"

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"Holy important and less into also granddaughter!"

Trigger more Internet son, Pizza Hut home!
Way read Uncle Sam Japanese missing affairs?
Know educated you (it Tokyo us Americans).
Late all world exchanges, them United States seconds.

Algorithm: 1) randomly open source text, and randomly select a paragraph; b) For 1st line of "poem", take 1st word of 1st paragraph, 2nd word of 2nd paragraph... up to 7th word from 7th paragraph. c) for 2nd line of "poem", take last word of 7th paragraph, 2nd to last word of 6th paragraph... back to 7th to last word of the 1st paragraph. d) repeat steps b & c with frame shifts (e.g., b' becomes 2nd word from 1st paragraph, 3rd word from 2nd and c' becomes 2nd to last word from 7th paragraph, 3rd to last word from 6th paragraph, etc.)
Source Text: "The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Undertstanding Globalization", by Thomas L. Friedman


June 25

Stuart saw two gleaming eyes
Axl went on a rampage
"I want you to steer my boat!"
(Axl has his own internal pharmeceutical biosynthesis laboratory).

He had egg on his trousers, butter on his cap
briefly employed in a guitar shop.
"Have you any engraved stationary", Stuart asked the storekeeper.
(Izzy agrees, "we partied pretty hard there for awhile").

"Suppose I get sick to my stomach?", asked Stuart.
McKagan personifies the rock star bassist.
"Stuart's down the mousehole!"
(What's really surprising is that Axl Rose is talking about all this onstage in front of 83,000 people).

Algorithm: 1) randomly open source text A; 2) randomly plop finger down; 3) take a healthy and cohesive sequential words that fall within 1/4 inch of fingertip; 4) repeat steps 1-3 for source text B; 5) repeat 1-4 until it "feels vaguely like a poem".
Source Text A: "Stuart Little", by E.B. White
Source Text B: "Appetite for Destruction: The Days of Guns N' Roses", by Danny Sugerman


June 23

Reading and discussion
(painting carries
the silences).

Several indexes
mosquitos and all.
We play solitaire.

"There is already enough of the unknown"
Examples are given from ship building
(he was a complex man).

I haven't eaten the potatos;
I had written my text.

Algorithm: 1) randomly open source text; 2) randomly plop finger down; 3) take a string of up to 6 words that passes directly beneath fingertip; 4) repeat 1-3 for each new line until it "feels vaguely like a poem".
Source Text : "A Year From Monday", by John Cage


June 22

An agenda should be circulated among group members
and issued with dummy weapons
(to reduce anxiety associated with evaluations).
Shot to death with arrows so their blood dripped to the ground like life-giving rain.

To what use will these evaluations be put?
The front view shows the gash in the victim's breast
(I help others feel free to talk with me,
breaking one of the clay flutes at each step).

The urgency of adapting to the needs of others:
prisoners were bound hand and foot!
"Oh, you're from engineering, I see"
(freshly broken obsidian is as sharp as glass).

Algorithm: 1) randomly open source text A; 2) randomly plop finger down; 3) take a healthy and cohesive sequential words that fall within 1/4 inch of fingertip; 4) repeat steps 1-3 for source text B; 5) repeat 1-4 until it "feels vaguely like a poem".
Source Text A: "Small Group Communication in Organizations", by H. Lloyd Goodall
Source text B: "Everyday Life of the Aztecs", by Warwick Bray


June 21

No text today -- busy with Sinister Kitchen CD release party!


June 20

On a remote atoll
dog worshippers
fall for Jesse's granddaughter.

Lots of swordplay
in the coal mines
against a background of mob violence
in the primitive Alaskan wilderness:
tormented by nightmares
with razor fingernails
and loads of money.

She awakens to wreak havoc on civilization!
Odin offers her one more chance:
the ultimate car chase!
Fleeing the medieval countryside
to arrive in Natucket to care for her insane grandmother
plunging the janitor into
tragic consequences.

Somewhat contrived,
good cast, lots of laughs but
it won't make anyone forget Caddyshack II

Algorithm: 1) randomly open source text; 2) randomly plop finger down; 3) take a string of up to 10 sequential words that falls within 1/4 inch of fingertip; 4) repeat steps 1-3 until it reads like the plot of an especially good Hollywood movie.
Source Text: "Videohoud's Golden Movie Retriever, 1997"


June 19

The family reunites for one last weekend
and the bank sends it's timid efficiency expert
to snap incriminating photos.

A stranger appears
to build the car of the future
but his shrinking device accidentally shrinks
the man responsible for killing his pa.

The bandits believe they are victims of hocus-pocus
and create chaos in the world!
Hunted by evil warlord Mako,
big bugs also run amok!

He comes back to discover Somiya pregnant
(saving a farming community's crops from
an experimental sexual relationship).

In the seamy part of town
a lost tribe of cannibal women feast on their mates
(commanders of the spaceship Orbit)
An angel befriends Sullavan, a tubercular beauty
(Pablo the Penguin)
and enters the 500 mile winner-take-all dog-sled race
underneath the Brooklyn Bridge.

Algorithm: 1) randomly open source text; 2) randomly plop finger down; 3) take a string of up to 10 sequential words that falls within 1/4 inch of fingertip; 4) repeat steps 1-3 until it reads like the plot of an especially good Hollywood movie.
Source Text: "Videohoud's Golden Movie Retriever, 1997"


June 18

A long needle piercing her navel
(not lyricism or subjectivity)
the viewers foresaw another race
the true saints of art.

Artificially recreating the Earth's atmosphere,
less intense, less self-conscious,
interior organs had been removed:
small thematic or motivic fragments.

The huge bird disappeared
with manuscripts from Beethoven and Schubert
to produce the crop circles,
sunny and smelling of coffee.

There Leir found a metallic core
and Brahms realized an old fantasy:
the abduction experience --
the dying of an empire.

Algorithm: 1) randomly open source text A; 2) randomly plop finger down; 3) take a string of 3-5 sequential words that fall within 1/4 inch of fingertip; 4) repeat steps 1-3 for source text B; 5) repeat 1-4 until it "feels vaguely like a poem".
Source Text A: "Alien Agenda", by Jim Marrs;
Source Text B: "Johannes Brahms: A Biography" by Jan Swafford


June 17

An airless shoebox
not just for children
(pointedly asking
if they can call you a cab).

The compact town center
squared off and home
to temporary art exhibits
plenty of places to go swimming or paddling!
Daily life in the good old GDR.

But hair stylist's skills tend
to outmatch their judgement and taste,
which led to the creation of wide bouelvards:
a blurry line that separates the cafe from the carafe.

Algorithm: a) randomly open source text; b) randomly plop finger down; c) take a string of up to 9 sequential words that fall within 1/4 inch of fingertip; d) repeat a-c until it "feels like a poem".
Source Text: "Time Out, Berlin" (a travel guide)


June 16

[{}{}{}{}] Confinement, restraint or paintings,
`'`'`'`'`' altarpieces with everyday expectations.

^^^^^^^^^^ Devotional acts all, like cerebral ventricles
########## exorcising authority to play amorously:
<<<<<<<<<< directly from their sources,
>>>>>>>>>> deposited by water,
~~~~~~~~~~ and conveyed by means of flame.

========== An external government
:.;',`^-., but having some degree of autonomy.
========== A strange school year in which
---------> insurrection is served unstintingly to students.


June 15

Sublime atomic singleton
or sacrificial simpleton?

Lost in the virtual victuals,
another residual self ore ever:
a pimp in a data whorehouse.


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