The Unknown Hipster

On a dark Sunday evening, I went down to Liberty Park to see the protesters. It had snowed the day before, and I wondered whether they were still there.

They were huddling in an assembly, and to debate, used their now iconic human microphone, which consists in the speaker processing short bits repeated by the crowd.

And I think

I THINK

This is

THIS IS

A useful invention

A USEFUL INVENTION

Which gives any sentence

WICH GIVES ANY SENTENCE

The tone

THE TONE

And shape

AND SHAPE

Of an Art form

AN ART FORM

Which turns

WHICH

Turns

TURNS

The ordinary

THE ORDINARY

Into the oddest

INTO THE ODDEST

And gives gravity

GIVES GRAVITY

And exceptionnal weight

AND EXCEPTIONNAL WEIGHT

To unnoticed words

UNNOTICED WORDS

And accidentally

ACCIDENTALLY

comical absurdity

COMICAL ABSURDITY

To excessive solemnity

EXCESSIVE SOLEMNITY

I thought the Dadaïst poets would have like it, or the early Situationnists, in particular the Lettrists.

Serious kids with long hair, angelic faces, listened to bums and fools.

Where art thou, Isidore Isou ?