weil ich gerade bei meiner Literaturwissenschafts-Klausurvorbereitung nochmal drauf gestoßen bin und es immernoch so faszinierend finde: 14 Variationen von 14 Wörtern, "Opening the Cage" von Edward Morgan (*1920), ausgehend von einem Zitat von John Cage:
"I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry."


I have to say poetry and is that nothing and am I saying it
I am and I have poetry to say and is that nothing saying it
I am nothing and I have poetry to say and that is saying it
I that am saying poetry have nothing and it is I and to say
And I say that I am to have poetry and saying it is nothing
I am poetry and nothing and saying it is to say that I have
To have nothing is poetry and I am saying that and I say it
Poetry is saying I have nothing and I am to say that and it
Saying nothing I am poetry and I have to say that and it is
It is and I am and I have poetry saying say that to nothing
It is saying poetry to nothing and I say I have and am that
Poetry is saying I have it and I am nothing and to say that
And that nothing is poetry I am saying and I have to say it
Saying poetry is nothing and to that I say I am and have it

— Edwin Morgan, The Second Life
Edinburgh University Press, 1968