Sunday, February 8, 2009

Sunday Scribblings: Artful 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.

I rearranged the art such that the blackened tar covered the brown rat.

In coming to mean so many things, art virtually means nothing.

1 comment:

anthonynorth said...

Loved them - especially the last.