A visit to “Occupy Wall Street”
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 ?
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