Celebration of Flarf Poetry
Flarf is a genre of deliberately bad poetry that celebrates grammatical inaccuracies, forced clichés, and impolite language. It features a mix of corrosive, cute, and cloying elements, often incorporating swear words and onomatopoeia. Initially a prank, flarf relies on Google for odd juxtapositions and has garnered attention from cartoonists, authors, and poets like Gary Sullivan, Sharon Mesmer, and K. Silem Mohammad. This form of poetry thrives on unconventional expression and challenges traditional literary norms.
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Flarf Grammatical inaccuracies Celebrates deliberately bad poetry Forced clich s & onomatopoeia Often impolite using swear words Corrosive, cute, cloying awfulness. Wrong. Un-P.C. Out of control. Not okay Originally a prank Internet-based Relies on Google Odd juxtapositions
Gary Sullivan Cartoonist Author - Poet Comic Book Elsewhere Blog: garysullivan.blogspot.com
flarf flarf Sharon Mesmer Annoying Diabetic Bitch collection of flarf poetry published in 2008 Blog: virginformica.blogspot.com Teaches at the New School in Manhattan
K. Silem Mohammad Teachers English & Writing at Southern Oregon University Published many books of poetry Deer Head Nation A Thousand Devils Breathalyzer The Front The Sonnagrams (turned Shakespeare s sonnets into anagram sonnets in iambic pentameter example on next slide) video video (Anagrams: Torchwood Doctor Who I Am Lord Voldemort Tom Marvelo Riddle)
O! that you were your self; but, love, you are No longer yours, than you your self here live: Against this coming end you should prepare, And your sweet semblance to some other give: So should that beauty which you hold in lease Find no determination; then you were Yourself again, after yourself's decease, When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear. Who lets so fair a house fall to decay, Which husbandry in honour might uphold, Against the stormy gusts of winter's day And barren rage of death's eternal cold? O! none but unthrifts. Dear my love, you know, You had a father: let your son say so.
A groovy day, a fish fillet, an elf hair, A cosmonaut, a microdot, a hoedown, A trusty door, the finest whore on welfare, A neocon who s keeping on the lowdown, A purple fist, a Federalist, a sunspot, A bird that s got a big big butt to study, A guy named Toots, ten dumb galoots, a gunshot, Die Fledermaus by good ol Strauss (my buddy), So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground; And for the peace of you I hold such strife As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found. Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure; Now counting best to be with you alone, Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure: Sometime all full with feasting on your sight, And by and by clean starved for a look; Possessing or pursuing no delight Save what is had, or must from you be took. Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, Or gluttoning on all, or all away. A grinning troll, a real a-hole, a smiler, A dude who knows a gushing hose is funny, An underdressed (no tie, no vest) John Tyler, A sexy flirt, a cowboy shirt oh honey! I ll flip you for a dinosaur, my sweeties, When Uncle Pete lets Usher eat our Wheaties.
Nada Gordon Blog: ululate.blogspot.com
