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I was also connected with
poetry, both in America

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and, certainly, in Europe,
and that came before.

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And in the '70s, there was a
book called That Dada Strain.

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Although the title is taken
from a jazz blues standard,

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but I think some
sense of Dada in that.

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So a series of
poems that That Dada

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Strain addressed
to the Dada poets

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of the earlier 20th century.

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And so I'll read a little
suite of Dada poems,

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the opening poem of
That Dada Strain,

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a sound poem by a
German poet, Hugo Ball,

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all of this taking place
in Zurich, Switzerland,

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during the First World
War, and then a poem

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spoken to Hugo Ball.

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There's a lot of politics
and war and disgust

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with war and human
cruelty among the Dadas.

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"That Dada Strain.

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[WHIRLY TUBE PLAYING]

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The zigzag mothers of the gods
of science, the lunatic fixed

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stars and pharmacies,
fathers who

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left the tents of anarchism
unguarded, the arctic bones

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strung out on saint
germain like tom toms.

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Living light bulbs, aphrodisia,
'art is junk,' the urinal says.

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'Dig a hole and swim in it.'

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A message from the grim
computer, 'ye are hamburgers'"

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