To make a Dadaist poem: * Take a newspaper. * Take a pair of scissors. * Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem. * Cut out the article. * Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag. * Shake it gently. * Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag. * Copy conscientiously. * The poem will be like you. * And here you are a writer, infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar. -Tristan Tzara To make a Dadaist poem - Tristan Tzara (1920) http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/litterature/15/pages/18.htm