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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

DADA DADA DADA DADA DADA DADA DADA DADA DADA DADA DADA DADADADADADADADADADADA

Tristan Tzara, one of the founders of DADA, celebrated controlled nonsense.

The DADA poem allows you to see yourself in the newspaper; it reflects your own "unique qualities" (about which Tzara & John Cage & Jackson Mac Low & I remain happily uncertain) back to you in a haze of half-understanding.

Long Live D A D A !

These poems by my 7th & 8th graders prove the case w/out forcing it into foreclosure; like Tzara's poetry, they preserve the case by postponing it:

Michael F.
8th Grade, Room 124

PROBLEM TIMESHARES

Mr. Bush didn’t discuss policy, but
the event reflected how housing and

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President Bush, under pressure
from congressional Democrats to do
more to help the troubled housing sec-

VOLUNTARY PROGRAM

MORTGAGES To

form, Republican may be open
to some kind of compromise,
given the severity of the fore-
closure problem and political
pressures.

The White House and Demo-
crats in both houses of Congress have
tor, touted results from his administra-


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While the bill has little pros-
pect of passing in its current


Narda O.
7th Grade, Room 112

Domestic Life

People treasure gangster money

It’s fascinating how The arms look fragile enough to snap

LOUISVEILLE CENTER CAN’T begin work

I can’t afford hot dogs sold from carts

watching operas on TV is very typical of us

The company offers new malls

class is empty

Sabir A.
7th Grade, Room 112

CLIMB WALL IN NEPAL not winning

suits high and unhid

With things in flight;

To what end does this easy and cry

Shut and gone

of a small ere be miracles)

at a kiss

the same time.

bride increased—In Arizona

has hit a wall.

Fruitless, the fruit of mine own flesh

Obama

nuclear

head

blind, war

swallowed me that in mindless passion

there is no substance at all.

Rigoberto A.
7th Grade, Room 109

3 DADA Poems:

1.

“This morning I woke up and walked
out, turned the key and there was a noise
People who might have
thought their lives had nothing to do with

Exactly how much depends on the size


2.

let him tell you, in its Underwear and the wife
was “sexy looking” at extremely high temperatures.
with vivid description of hot flashes

3.

Selling stolen converters to Whoopie Goldberg with John Stewart.
it’s “really expensive” the way things are set up
in a very big city


Fausto S.
7th Grade, Room 109

a microfilmed roll of government
learned to taunt cops into hitting
criminal skills to the side of law
secrets from a fallen woman
of Soviet agents. Smirkingly
mark is Skip McCoy, a New York
and a shadowy new cold war had
him, as a way of invalidating
workers, prompting police to chase
Sheriff Joseph L. Mankiew
great swamp of moral ambiguity
merable bogus complaints.
In the fall, four states in the American
grants, a state that is the nation’s busiest
not a single reported citation. Not even
where in the middle—in that
gateway for illegal crossings, imagine
where those that placed him some
can’t find a single lawbreaker in a state
there have been thousands of
ruining businesses.

Mexico is Homeland of
Latinos. Books for only three months. But if they
that four years of active conflict
And don’t forget: since 1986, it’s been
Hall of Fame.


Maryam K.
7th Grade, Room 109

Before/After

A faint echo of the
2002 sniper attacks
that terrorized the
Washington area.

stops with a jolt,

turns off his lights,
did you ever try to get around a girdle
women. Why should women be
required to know the names of flowers

Dethroned; dispraised, disseated; and my mind

with friends, she recom
mends against sharing prob
lems, saying it is best

toward--& naming the passage time or

Perhaps Non-Violent Action

Who can or could be can be sure
mixed into anesthetic, and drove it home.

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