The first is one of William's Sonnets run through my new Markov Chain Text Fiddler. It takes an original text, contructs a database of words and their successors and then creates a randomly generated recreation starting with the first word and then running through successors, etc.
Depending on the variety or lack of variety in the vocabulary used, you get something more or less similar to the original. What follows is the second run through the machine. I added the line breaks, nothing else was changed. I also have a machine that builds new Shakespeare's
Sonnets by picking lines from a set of all the sonnets to make a new one. The wierd thing is that these still sound legitimate!

If Not Paid Before

When to the while I summon up remembrance of things past,
Unused to woe tell o'er
The lack of sweet silent thought
I sigh the expense of many a thing I drown an eye,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
Unused to woe to the sessions of things past,
Which I grieve at grievances foregone,
All losses are restor'd and heavily from woe,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
All losses are restor'd and moan, dear time's waste:
Then can I sigh the sessions of fore-bemoaned moan the while
I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the lack of things past,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
Unused to the sessions of things past,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
I new pay as if the while I summon up remembrance of many a thing
I summon up remembrance of things past,
Dear time's waste:
Then can I sought,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
Which I summon up remembrance of things past,
Which I summon up remembrance of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of many a thing I think on thee,
Unused to flow,
I sigh the sessions of things past, dear friend, I sought, dear time's waste:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And sorrows end.
But if not paid before.

The next bit of doggerel is the output of another machine I have made. It creates 1 to n syllable words using English phonemes, generating pronouncible gibberish. A few years back I read one of these at one of the many open-mike poetry sessions here in San Francisco. It was much more favorably received than my randomly generated haiku. Figures... If read with expression and a stentorian voice, you could probably fool people in thinking it was just a foreign language, or that you are speaking in tongues!

Ashska Oiskarnkloi Afesmunt

Koovoasne oanaedrosnellcoofiht iclest
Icroush spierktrewhechevy gipozae eharoa achiacovo
Clagyosrinusmiepsdi ewhertahi oht
Evountiwai vutchbusux cushatooci deaku oospiant
Uzesluts etai adilyits ouboomt blefutschoacleskafi
Ieke eivdlohoa emie ufrouspei aipo ei utespe

Feerkkrafirtchagroapsai whoi queaku
Fiki akooplaigsmugoaspi gupa inopru ubleely cridrou
Ustisnespubliaspoczu plaistefraisoklornei upuzill
A avysniho oi aegwhoajade trosreepeakart prealdeasnoocooblo
Oiweishitrirtou cri dlasnielt
Ia eefnupre jiwhejo smaijshocrorn ezfou iawainai
Oanaitramtegrume ikrozze iaryaquairmeiploquu gedolp
Eali steareiquash etiquei ouwajo udroucetta aigentojiegoukru
Eeziekepscrie noltu dliachsruboakluxdro ieviesoolu Ihemeipeisriccloo shadeatch
Usaestontusnilp krohe ikong ull
Edoi epopeeleegy ushoniesti olicluvikuveluvy plupro nuntea
Eiltaspawhortei earespiatchqui iegru ulle eyaly pla
Dliskienkrefroorm tefri deslenoarn
Grullslake nifraimogrusnirko oopaklafrogh echodruskulf eizupi
Oyafofshae dre afu eyaepriaveesmee whie

This last bit of stuff a some proverbs generated by my Phrase Structure
Grammar Machine. It uses PS Grammars and a huge set of word databases
to generate all kinds of things. These are a bunch of proverbs spewed out
this morning. Pick choose, whatever. No editing, as is...

Proverbs

There's no brother like this astringent.
Escapism breeds empiricism.
Optimism makes the heart grow fonder.
Like fly, like saxophone.
Theism is stranger than dogmatism.
The road to hell is paved with dark chairs.
He that would have nerve gases must endure the cackling of
unicycles.
Fire is a good son but a bad landlord.
The Nobel prize calls the television black.
Chauvinism is the best imagism.
If you can't stand the cloud, get out of the jail.
An unartistic terrorist is hard to find.
Polytheism is the best mortician.
The school superintendent knows not the worth of her
nylon stocking till she loses it.
Love me love my banana.
Nothing is given so freely as statues.
Fascism is only skin deep.
One man's plastic crucifix is another man's plug.
The darkest potato is that before the eye.
You cannot put new brooms in old pianos.
There is a remedy for everything except defeatism.
See no mysticism, hear no evangelism, speak no classicism.
An ounce of feudalism is worth a pound of conservatism.
Bugs make the man.
Don't look the Texan cheese in the automobile.
Idle senators have least chauvinism.
Do not wash your quick-witted things in public.
Give us the umbrellas, and we will finish the mop.
Essential is the country that has no nails.
Of two evils choose the painting.
Don't judge this blanket by its filthy thought.
Don't teach dirty words to swim.
Little empty heads have big plates.
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That's it!! I hope these fit somebody's notion of Fluxus...
Personally I view myself more in the Dada / Surrealist
mode, but what are labels anyway?

neal johnson