Electronic Fog

This is a poem I wrote, also in 2009, using a chance method. As quickly as I could, I scribbled words and phrases that came to mind onto note-cards and tossed them into a pile on the floor. When I'd gone through a sufficiently sizable number of cards, I picked up the pile, shuffled them, and flopped them face down onto a table. Then I grabbed an four sided die from a Dungeons & Dragons game, rolled it for every card in the pile, and wrote the number that came up onto the back of the card. Then I flipped the stack over and copied the words or phrases on each card the number of times indicted on the back of the card onto a piece of paper. The "cheating" happened when I decided to manipulate a few of the random outcomes, just a teeny, tiny bit. (It's my game, and I can break the rules if I want to!!!) And, for the recording of this piece, because of the disjointed nature of the word flow, I thought the perfect vehicle would, again, be the synthetic voice. Oh, what fun! "Blindfold, Shuffle, Roll the Die (and C