Sunday, January 11, 2009

Sunday Scribblings: Organic American Sentences

American Sentences: They are haiku-length poems that Allen Ginsburg suggested be limited to 17 syllables, like haiku in Japanese and like the Heart Sutra in Buddhism. The following two sentences are such American Sentences of 17 syllables.


On drugs, cooped in the office, and eating fast food, he’s inorganic.

The cannibal wants a clean, active, and healthy victim for dinner.

3 comments:

anthonynorth said...

Loved them, especially the second.

Anonymous said...

Nice one!

Anonymous said...

thanks for the background description. this sounds cool.

i liked the first one!