07.09.11
Saturday phlogiston
The blog or name contributes the title to a flarf poem.
Flarf poetry is explained here:
[A] form … made by combining together phrases from random web searches … Flarf started off as a joke but then these joke poems that people were coming up with “evolved from ‘bad’ to ‘sort of great'”.
“Sort of great” being a description with great elasticity.
Anyway, here’s a “flarf poet” reading from her collection — subsequently put into a book. To an audience of what sounds like two or three, maybe four.
The video of the performance, about fifteen minutes long, is here.
A very short “flarf poem,” A Dick Destiny, comes at 4:52.
The poet delivers a performance in which the listener keeps expecting another to take the stage, someone playing a bongo drum. But it never happens.
