Wednesday, May 20, 2009

3WW(Treacherous, Optimize, Efficient): 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 optimize efficient processes with treacherous abandon.

The treacherous but efficient man optimized his foes’ apathy.

6 comments:

pia said...

trying to understand optimizing apathy :)

Thom Gabrukiewicz said...

short and sweet. I like the first one.

gautami tripathy said...

Like the first one.

3WW: no pawns spared

susan said...

I get the first one. Thanks.

susan said...

btw, hope you had a good vacation.

Anonymous said...

I liked them both! I actually like your whole blog actually. Well done! -Meg